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Historical Event on 10/26/1932
Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1981 | Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated. |
| 12/14/1901 | Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder. |
| 12/29/1904 | K. V. Puttappa, famous Kannada poet and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Hirekodage. |
| 3/28/1954 | The flight undertook its first VVIP commitment, when it carried the first Prime Minister of India, the Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, from Palam to Tilpat range and back to witness the 'Fire Power Demo'. It carried wide spectrum of VVIPs, including the President, the Prime Minister, renowned statesmen, Generals, Luminaries and visiting foreign dignitaries. |
| 3/29/1978 | Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India and 229 runs, passed away. |
| 9/4/1998 | Mumbai Metropolitan court acquits Union Minister for Environment and Forests Suresh Prabhu in a case of cheque bouncing. |
| 12/4/1959 | Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation. |
| 2/1/1929 | Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born. |
| 8/5/1992 | The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
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