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Historical Event on 2/26/1874
Sursingh Takhtsingh Gohil `Kalapi', famous Gujrati poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 5/8/1992 | Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%. |
| 6/1/1933 | Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published. |
| 8/15/1872 | Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 7/5/1998 | An Amusement and Picnic Resorts Pvt. Ltd. with five dolphins and sea lions was inaugurated at Mahabalipuram. |
| 6/24/1989 | A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal. |
| 4/15/1946 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 2/12/1998 | Om Prakash, 78, Hindi film comedian, passed away in Mumbai. |
| 1/29/1996 | S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president. |
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