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Historical Event on 4/26/1841
Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1992 | Mohan Choty, comedy film actor, passed away. |
| 4/4/1942 | Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. |
| 5/31/1968 | F.V. Arul became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 06/05/71). |
| 2/8/1971 | Indira Congress wins the mid-term elections for Lok Sabha. Indira Gandhi becomes PM. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 7/20/1957 | India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar. |
| 2/15/1924 | Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian 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. |
| 9/27/1958 | Mihir Sen becomes the first Indian to cross the English Channel from Dover to Calais. |
| 8/12/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis. |
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