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Historical Event on 5/26/1885
Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1842 | Mahadev Govind Ranade was born. He was the chief architect of Bombay Prathana Samaj. |
| 4/1/1995 | The Airports Authority of India (AAI) formed by the merger of IAAI and NAA. AAI manages five international airports, 87 domestic airports and 28 civil enclaves. |
| 6/9/1909 | Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 3/1/1950 | The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000. |
| 3/26/1938 | Laxminath Bezbarua, great littearateur of modern Assamia language, passed away. |
| 12/24/1988 | Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died. |
| 6/10/1959 | Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar. |
| 7/6/1917 | Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established. |
| 5/25/1606 | Guru Arjun Dev, spiritual leader of Sikhs and Hindus, was massacred at the instruction of Emperor Jahangir. |
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