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Historical Event on 8/26/1996

Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
5/31/1977Major Premchand and Naik Nima Dorji Sherpa, in the team on Indian Army Treckers, reached the peak of Kanchenjunga. They were amongst the first Indians to reach this peak.
1/3/1997Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
9/16/1973Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
3/31/1992Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
1/2/1979Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs West Indies).
3/1/1939Satish Kumar Sareen was born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan). He became the Air Chief Marshal.
8/29/1976Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh.