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Historical Event on 2/26/1966
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
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| 8/10/1995 | Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
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| 6/10/1955 | Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born. |
| 6/10/1955 | Firuz Shah Bahmani died. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
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