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Historical Event on 4/26/1999
India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/26/1999 | Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya Devji alias Gaurang, Vishwambhar Mishra, Vaishnav Saint of Bengal, was born at Nabadwip in Bengal. |
| 5/23/1942 | Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell and his men arrive at Dimapur, having retreated 150 miles (240 km) through the Burmese jungle. `We took a hell of a beating,' he said. |
| 8/29/1984 | Indian Airlines Boeing 737 with 68 passengers and a crew of 6 hijacked in Lahore. |
| 2/6/1937 | Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born. |
| 2/13/1968 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha. |
| 5/19/2000 | A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency. |
| 3/25/1996 | CBI gives a clean chit to PM Rao in the St. Kitts case. |
| 11/5/1999 | India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12. |
| 12/6/1997 | Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands. |
| 8/12/1992 | 72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh. |
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