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Historical Event on 7/26/1927
Gulabrai Sipahahimalani Ramchand, cricketer (valuable all-rounder in 33 Tests for India), was born in Karachi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 7/21/1977 | Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away. |
| 11/10/1922 | S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka. |
| 9/29/1991 | Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 9/3/1997 | Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel. |
| 3/21/1971 | Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown. |
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