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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
3/9/1836Navalram Lakshmiram Pandya, famous writer and Gujrati critic , was born.
7/8/1996U.N. says India is leading in HIV infections.
1/22/1886Harikrishna Premi, Hindi writer, passed away.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
3/14/1993India seeks Interpol's assistance in investigating the sources of bomb blasts in Bombay.
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
6/29/1998Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.
7/21/1963Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.
4/24/1888Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo.
2/24/2000The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise.