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Historical Event on 2/26/1857

First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
9/8/1997English chosen as the official language of Dravidian University which was set up at Kuppam (Andhra Pradesh) jointly by the southern states.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
12/4/1959Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation.
2/24/1996S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India.
1/17/1913Yadvendra Singh, HH LtG. Maharaja of Patial, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India vs England), was born in Patiala, Punjab.
12/22/1977Nalinibala Devi, Assamese poet, passed died.
4/1/1947Gandhiji addresses Asian Relations Conference in Delhi.
11/6/1950King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India.