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Historical Event on 9/26/1996
Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1998 | The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
| 3/10/1922 | Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati. |
| 3/10/1922 | Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India. |
| 12/13/1899 | Pandurang Satu Naik, famous film photographer of Indian film industry, was born. |
| 6/6/1997 | U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal. |
| 6/1/1944 | Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 12/20/1978 | Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
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