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Historical Event on 8/26/2000
Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/6/1892 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai. |
| 9/24/1936 | It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity. |
| 7/24/2000 | S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad. |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
| 3/10/1991 | The Army Dental Corps celebrates its Golden Jubilee and proudly recounts its past glory. |
| 1/21/1978 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer, poet, editor of 'Dainik Batori', journalist and lawyer, passed away. He participated in the Quit India Movement for which he was arrested. |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 3/16/2000 | Rabri Devi, Bihar Chief Minister, wins trust vote. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
| 2/12/1996 | President S.D. Sharma in Kerala. |
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