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Historical Event on 3/26/1996
The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/22/1877 | Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
| 1/22/1858 | Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was sentenced to death. |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 10/6/1992 | Z. R. Ansari, former central minister, died. |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 2/19/1996 | Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 4/2/1997 | Sumita Sinha of Dhanbad, (18 years college girl) became a world record holder when a 3,200 kg Ambassador car passed over her. |
| 11/27/1993 | Splendid bowling by Anil Kumble (6 for 12) helps India to beat West Indies by 102 runs in the Hero Cup finals in Calcutta. |
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