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Historical Event on 3/26/1918

Vanavihari B.N. Sundara Rao, great author and journalist, was born at Varthur, Bangalore.

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8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
10/3/1831Britishers captured Mysore.
4/1/1997Govt. clarifies it is illegal to carry a child on a two-wheeler in addition to a pillion rider.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
11/27/1976Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away.
11/17/1966India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.
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12/10/1878Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
2/8/1921Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated.