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Historical Event on 4/26/1926

Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943).

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
9/10/1920Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal.
11/6/1930First Round Table Conference held at London.
1/31/1963Peacock declared as National Bird of India.
6/23/1761Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June.
11/18/1978Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away.
7/5/1996Janata Dal expels dissident Maneka Gandhi from primary membership of the party.
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
5/21/1966General Election (11th) of India ends.
1/12/1997Paes-Bhupathi win doubles title in the Singapore Open Challenger hardcourt tennis.