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Historical Event on 3/26/1997

Russia agrees to help India in developing a state-of-the-art integrated air defence system, even as the two agree to carry military cooperation into the 21st century during the visit of Prime Minister Deve Gowda.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
1/14/1984Gujarati Daily 'Samkalin' of Indian Express Group published.
9/28/1984First floodlights lit ODI between India and Australia held outside of Australia at New Delhi.
10/5/1907British MP Keir Hardie reported fomenting rebellion in India.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
4/22/1942The Telecommunication Training Centre was established at Jabalpur.
4/6/1993Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19.
7/21/1658Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
6/4/1994Army successfully test-fires the short range surface-to-surface missile, 'Prithvi'.