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Historical Event on 2/26/1946
Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/5/1659 | Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Khawan near Allahabad. |
| 11/25/1879 | Sri Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, professor, saint poet, great orator and prolific writer, was born in Hyderabad, Sindh (now in Pakistan). He was the founder of Mira Movement. |
| 12/4/1796 | Bajirao became the second Peshwa. |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 6/20/1946 | Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state. |
| 10/12/1993 | National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 9/10/1858 | Manilal Nathubhai Dwivedi, great author and father of modern Gujarati poems, was born. |
| 4/2/1991 | Asom Gana Parishad splits. |
| 1/24/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India. |
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