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Historical Event on 5/26/1935

Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1958Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated.
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1/9/1972In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
11/28/1990President's rule imposed in Assam. Assembly kept in suspended animation. United Liberation Front of Assam and National Socialist Council of Nagaland banned.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
7/30/1957Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India was established through which exporting materials were insured.
5/7/1907Rajbali Pandey, famous poet, was born.
3/31/1994U.R. Rao, retiring ISRO Chairman, announces agreement with Russia for supplying 7 cryogenic engines.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.