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Historical Event on 6/26/1888

Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/17/1947Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives.
5/9/1992Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
2/24/199525 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.
2/25/1938Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.
5/2/1998The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
3/1/1995Iftikar, famous character actor, died.
6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.