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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
7/3/1997Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
7/10/1997Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
3/7/1994India and Iran sign three MoU in Tehran.
11/22/2000Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities.
10/1/1993The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
10/1/1993Akbar captured Ahmednagar.
8/2/1958Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad.
7/7/1799Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers.
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.