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Historical Event on 8/26/2000

Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/2000Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.
11/19/1999Indira Gandhi Peace prize is presented to a social worker of Bangladesh Muhammed Yunus.
7/13/1905Premnath Bazaz, famous Kashmir freedom fighter, was born.
5/25/1997Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora.
2/9/1993Congress (I), AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu breaks over Hindi imposition.
5/7/1985Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
5/8/1992Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), passed away.
12/30/1953The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India.
1/18/1982Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.