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Historical Event on 10/26/1890

Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1969India accepted 'Royal Bengal Tiger' as its National Animal, as recommended by the Indian Wild life Board. This Tiger is also known as the majestic tiger - panthere tigris (Linnaeus).
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
12/22/1975Vasant Krishna Desai, famous music director, died.
7/29/1993Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha.
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
9/18/1958Dr. Bhagwan Das, great philosopher, freedom fighter, Hindi writer, politician and litterateur, passed away.
4/5/1993G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.