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Historical Event on 2/26/1874
Sursingh Takhtsingh Gohil `Kalapi', famous Gujrati poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/13/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as Viceroy of British India. He ruled upto 14th August, 1947. |
| 8/21/1978 | Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets. |
| 7/25/1955 | Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi. |
| 6/30/1981 | President's rule imposed in Assam. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 7/15/1917 | Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra). |
| 10/23/1992 | The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign |
| 4/4/1912 | Dhundiraj Gopal Sapre, Sahityaratna and Sanskrit litterateur, was born. |
| 4/26/1946 | V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter. |
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