History of 26 May: Narendra Modi took over the reins of the country as the 15th Prime Minister on this day in 2014, know other incidents.

New Delhi. May 26 has special significance in the democratic history of the country, because on this day, after the landslide election victory in 2014, Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of the country for the first time. In the year 2019, Narendra Modi took over as the Prime Minister of the country for the second consecutive time and this time too the date of 26th May had a special significance.

In fact, in a release issued by Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 26, 2019, it was informed that President Ramnath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Modi at Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 30. The sequential details of other important events recorded on the date of 26th May in the history of the country and the world are as follows:-

1739: Afghanistan was once a part of India, but Mughal Emperor Mohammad Shah signed an agreement with Nadir Shah of Iran, separating it from the Indian Empire.
1822: 122 people died in a fire in a church in Norway.
1926: Lebanon adopted the constitution.
1957: Janata Bima Policy started in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1969: Astronauts of Apollo 10 returned to Earth.
1973: Bahrain adopted the constitution.
1983: 104 people died in a 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Japan.
1987: Sri Lanka launched a campaign against Tamil rebels in Jaffna.
1991: 223 people died in a plane crash near Bangkok in Thailand.
1999: ISRO successfully placed three satellites of India, Germany and South Korea into space orbit.
1999: Saurabh Ganguly and Rahul Dravid made a world record partnership of 318 runs in a One Day International cricket match against Sri Lanka.
2000: Hezbollah announced that its fighters would withdraw from southern Lebanon.
2014: Narendra Modi took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India.
2022: 11 infants died in a fire in a hospital in Senegal.
2024: Due to cyclone ‘Remal’, more than eight lakh people were evacuated to safe places in Bangladesh.
2025: 52 people killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza.