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Historical Event on 3/26/1987

Hyderabad beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/1917Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra).
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
9/19/1965Government extends ultimatum to India to dismantle forts within four days in China.
8/1/1963Soviets offer India arms to block China.
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.
9/5/1998Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore.
1/24/1994India sends six proposals to Pakistan to resolve bilateral problems.