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Historical Event on 1/26/1882
Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1992 | Talwinder Singh Parmar, the Babbar Khalsa founder who masterminded the Kanishka jumbo explosion of 1985, was shot by security forces in Punjab. |
| 12/16/1999 | Bill on Cyber law is introduced in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/28/1998 | All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty. |
| 2/8/1936 | Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda. |
| 10/16/1999 | A woman is elected as the Speaker of the Sikkim Assembly. |
| 4/1/2000 | India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran. |
| 9/17/1948 | The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement. |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 5/4/1995 | The fourth ASLV-D4 blasts off from Sriharikota, successfully placing the SROSS-C2 satellite in orbit. |
| 7/27/1972 | Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of C.O.I.(M-L), died in prison. |
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