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Historical Event on 5/26/1998
Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1923 | Sadashiv ""Sadu"" Ganpatrao Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner during the late 1940's and early 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 2/7/1993 | Medium-range surface to surface missile, 'Prithvi' successfully launched for the 10th time. |
| 1/1/1934 | Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka. |
| 10/20/1774 | New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed. |
| 5/2/1769 | Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 3/30/1992 | Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award.. |
| 4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
| 4/3/1992 | Nagaland brought under President's rule. |
| 12/12/2000 | A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001. |
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