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Historical Event on 10/26/1999
Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/29/1965 | Indian Everest team sets a world record by climbing the Everest for the fourth time. |
| 11/17/1921 | Princes of Wales came to India. |
| 7/9/1938 | Sanjeev Kumar, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 10/14/1997 | Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Amritsar and spend time at the Jallianwala Bagh and Golden Temple complex. |
| 10/30/1963 | Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, nationalist, freedom fighter and social worker, died at Madurai. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 5/3/1971 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
| 1/27/1988 | The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island. |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
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