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Historical Event on 12/26/1989
Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1979 | Sanjiva Reddy,President, flagged off the first electric train in Madras. |
| 9/8/1953 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at. |
| 1/1/1664 | Shivaji assumes royal title. |
| 4/17/1917 | V.Sp. Manickam, famous Hndi writer, was born at Melasivapuri (Pudukkottai). |
| 12/11/1976 | Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 2/1/1942 | 17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees. |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 3/25/1971 | Aashish Rakesh Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- ), was born in Madras. |
| 4/22/1996 | Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr. Bhumidhar Barman became new CM. |
| 1/7/1988 | Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu. |
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