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Historical Event on 2/26/1937
Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/7/1934 | Nariman Jamshedji Contractor ""Nari Contractor"", cricketer (Indian batsman & captain) was born in Godhra, Gujarat. |
| 3/15/1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 227 vs Zimbabwe. This was his second consecutive Test 200. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
| 10/25/1971 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 7/25/1988 | Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 1/15/1999 | Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai. |
| 6/9/1999 | The Indian army occupies two key positions in the Batalik sector. |
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