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Historical Event on 5/26/1906
Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/20/1680 | Chhatrapati Sambhaji was throne. |
| 10/1/1886 | Baluchisthan became a part of India. |
| 3/24/1977 | Ban on RSS and 26 other organisations lifted. |
| 3/22/1999 | Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur. |
| 12/31/1998 | Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 5/22/1991 | Sonia unanimously elected Congress President by the Working Committee. She, however, declined the offer. |
| 1/19/1963 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away. |
| 2/26/1971 | Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born. |
| 9/23/1999 | India rejects Pakistan's proposal for an international conference on arms control. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
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