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Historical Event on 8/26/1927

Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
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2/2/1952India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras.
7/20/1954Armistice for Indo-China signed.
10/3/1985Morocco breaks diplomatic relations with India after New Delhi announced its recognition of the Saharwi Arab Democratic Republic.
10/12/1991Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.
9/11/1958India and Pakistan announced that most border disputes between the two countries had been settled.
5/16/1932Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
5/16/1932Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
10/17/1999Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla.