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Historical Event on 2/26/1946
Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1960 | Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries. |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
| 6/25/1658 | 6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail. |
| 7/24/2000 | S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad. |
| 4/10/1760 | Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75. |
| 1/23/1920 | Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started. |
| 10/6/1935 | Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India. |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 4/4/1889 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 10/21/1995 | L.K.Advani unanimously re-elected BJP president for the fourth time in New Delhi. |
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