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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
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
10/26/1932Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.
2/14/1755Raghuji Bhosle, great fighter of Bhosle gharana in Nagpur, passed away.
11/18/1960Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away.
1/10/1932Gandhi and his wife are arrested by the Indian authorities.
12/1/1993World AIDS day.
5/1/1960Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.
2/3/1994Akash' missile launched successfully.
3/11/1997Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles.