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Historical Event on 1/26/2001

Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/11/1996A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500.
9/20/1993First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
3/21/1994Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi.
12/26/1947K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
4/12/1992M. Basavapunniah (77),Communist leader, passed away.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
7/23/1904The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains.
11/17/1925Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born.