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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
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
2/1/1831The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
3/13/1992K. S. Niranjan, famous Kannad author, passed away.
12/11/1963Kewalam Madhav Panikkar, veteran politician and famous historian, passed away.
1/5/2000Tamil Nadu regains Subbiah Pillai Trophy one day cricket tournament.
8/20/1995India and China decide to withdraw four army battalions from Chu Sumdurong valley near the Line of Actual Control.
2/20/1992Pandit Gauri Shankar, famous dance director in Hindi films, passed away.
2/12/1996President S.D. Sharma in Kerala.
11/22/1971Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days.
2/24/1996Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA.