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Historical Event on 5/26/1999
IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/1997 | Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta. |
| 10/23/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN. |
| 11/24/1952 | Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda. |
| 4/22/1812 | Dalhousie, governor general of India, was born. |
| 1/10/1959 | Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi. |
| 5/5/1916 | Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
| 6/13/1932 | Nirmalchandra Sen, great revolutionary, died. |
| 12/26/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi. |
| 12/21/1999 | The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
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