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Historical Event on 5/26/1926
Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/19/1965 | Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 10/18/2000 | Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river. |
| 7/25/1929 | Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born. |
| 6/27/1998 | Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86. |
| 6/29/1857 | Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British). |
| 11/10/1992 | Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns. |
| 8/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
| 4/18/1970 | Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy. |
| 8/13/1951 | First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India. |
| 2/16/1994 | Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, veteran singer of 'Jaipur Gharana', passed away. |
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