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Historical Event on 4/26/1990

V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/29/1857Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British).
5/25/1996DMK-led coalition ministry headed by R.V. Janakiraman sworn in Pondicherry.
5/25/1996Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.
9/26/1979Charan Singh launches a new party called the Lok Dal.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
10/12/1907Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
4/3/1987S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.