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Historical Event on 6/26/1888

Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1968First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language.
5/23/1997The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh.
3/19/1999The banned Maoist Communist Centre kills 34 Bhumihars at Senari village in Jehanabad district in Bihar.
2/22/1947Nehru welcomes British independence offer, invites Muslims to join at New Delhi.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
4/21/1995Medium range 'Akash', surface-to-air-missile, flight trial successful.
3/26/1990Pratap Singh Rane,Goa CM, resigns.
1/10/1922Museum of Prince of Wales, situated at Mumbai, opened for public.
11/15/1992At least 170 people die in heavy rains and floods in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
9/27/199573 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.