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Historical Event on 3/26/1997

Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
5/11/1998Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft.
10/21/1789Ramshastri Prabhune, justice of Peshwa kingdom, died.
12/28/1926Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service.
5/31/1921Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
8/20/1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
7/19/1974Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.
10/3/1984India's longest distance train Himsagar Express (from Jammu Tavi to Kanya Kumari) was first flagged.
1/18/1930Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram.
10/27/1926Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar