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Historical Event on 3/26/1990

Maniben Patel, daughter of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1967General Election ( 4th) of India ends.
2/12/194614 killed in Calcutta riots; Muslim leader Jinnah threatens civil war.
4/3/1992Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), was formed.
1/14/1994The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award).
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
9/7/1988President's rule in Mizoram.
2/19/1993Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.
4/4/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, inaugurates Samvidhan.com, a website about the Constitution. The site is a part of the Hindi portal, Webdunia.com.
4/29/1954India accepted Tibet as a part of China.
5/7/1996Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.