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Historical Event on 1/26/2001

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
7/9/1746French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India.
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
1/9/1904Pratab Singh Chaudhari, social worker, was born at Multan, Punjab .
9/22/2000Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
8/1/2000Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.
9/28/1991Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants.
4/2/1980Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party.
2/1/1988The first Congress of the Indian Dental Association begins. (28-1-88).
4/8/1887Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born.