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Historical Event on 3/26/1942

Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1965Meerut University was established.
1/12/1993Ramakanth Rath, well-known Oriya poet, gets the Saraswathi Samman of Rs.3 lakh.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
11/5/1907Special commissioner appointed to deal with famine conditions.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
6/12/1996India's new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda wins vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha and will rule as head of the United Front Coalition.
11/19/1985Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away.
11/1/1956Madhya Pradesh State High Court was established at Jabalpur having its benches in Gwalior and Indore.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
10/30/1996ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.