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Historical Event on 4/26/1946
V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
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| 5/7/1849 | Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education. |
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| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 6/8/1906 | Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932), born at Jullunder. |
| 12/20/1948 | Ladha Ramji, brother of Amar Singh and played his only Test vs Eng in 1933-34, died at Rajkot. |
| 10/13/1967 | Vasant Prabhu, famous music director, died. |
| 6/1/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
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