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Historical Event on 7/26/2000

The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
2/5/1949Judgement on Gandhi's murder; Godse and Apte to be executed.
5/26/1931One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
2/26/1858Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam).
2/16/1982Jawaharlal Nehru was staged first time in Calcutta Invitation International Gold Cup Football Tournament.
9/15/1860M. Visveswarayya, maker of modern Karnataka, was born. He was a notable engineer too.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
3/7/1921Kulwant Singh Virk, famous Hindi writer and journalist, was born.
2/25/1995Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed.
11/19/1978Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.