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Historical Event on 7/26/1975
Anti-government demonstrations held in Gujarat, defying the emergency law prohibiting such demonstrations.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/2000 | Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing. |
| 5/5/1916 | Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
| 12/13/1999 | The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor. |
| 5/31/1928 | Pankaj Khirod Roy, cricketer (Indian opener, 413 partnership w/Vinoo Mankad), was born in Calcutta. He was the recipient of Padmashree (1975). |
| 4/11/1887 | Jamini Roy, famous artist, was born. |
| 3/17/1988 | First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space. |
| 2/26/1996 | Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM. |
| 11/6/1952 | Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 6/16/1934 | M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 3/25/1931 | 50 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted. |
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