26-May today in indian history

26-May today in indian history

26-May-1739

Afghanistan was separated from the Indian empire as a result of a treaty signed between Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah and Nadir Shah.

26-May-1885

Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.

26-May-1906

Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being "The Rose in India".

26-May-1916

Rangnath Manohar Joshi (Nirmal Guruji), Marathi author, was born.

26-May-1926

Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.

26-May-1931

One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.

26-May-1935

Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.

26-May-1945

Vilasrao Dagdojirao Deshmukh, leader in Maharashtra, was born.

26-May-1946

Gandhiji considers 'Plan' the best document produced by British Government under the circumstances.

26-May-1948

First ever trade agreement with Pakistan.

26-May-1957

Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay.

26-May-1983

R. V. Marathe, father of Postal Index, passed away.

26-May-1993

The Centre decides to implement the Mandal Commission recommendation to provide 27\% reservation for the socially and educationally backward classes in the Central Services from 15th June.

26-May-1997

Government decides to allow the use of environment-friendly LPG as a motor vehicle fuel.

26-May-1998

Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.

26-May-1998

S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal.

26-May-1999

IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.

26-May-2000

In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.

26-May-2000

Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai.

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