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Historical Event on 3/26/1969

Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.
3/2/2000Om Prakash Chautala, Indian National Lok Dal supremo, sworn in the 18th Chief Minister of Haryana.
3/3/1930Untouchable people fought to enter the temple of 'Kala Rama' at Nasik.
3/22/1957National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian.
4/21/1990The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched.
3/25/1916S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born.
7/5/1916Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University.
8/7/1999A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.
12/27/1931150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province.