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Historical Event on 1/26/1988

A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1930Baba Adhav was born.
1/23/1897Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader and freedom fighter, was born at Cuttack. At the age of 23, he was ranked fourth in the I.C.S. Examination in London and fought against the British with his Azad Hind Fauj in the second World War.
3/13/1857Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away.
1/15/1973Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
2/19/1855U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born.
9/12/1899T. N. Swaminathan Pillai, master of Karnataka Classical Music, was born.
10/17/1940Mahatma Gandhi called for Individual Satyagrah and Vinoba Bhave started it.
1/3/1997Congress President Sitaram Kesri elected leader of Congress Parliamentary Party, and Sharad Pawar appointed leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.
1/10/199526th International Film Festival of India opens at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.
4/1/1839Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients .