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Historical Event on 8/26/1967
Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper in the 1930's), passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
| 10/29/1952 | Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name. |
| 9/23/1996 | Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I). |
| 3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 6/18/1992 | Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate. |
| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 3/30/1976 | Shankar Puroshattam Mulgaonkar 'Raghuvir', famous painter, passed away. |
| 8/4/1993 | Tarabai Bapat, daughter-in-law of revolutionary Senapati Bapat, died. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it. |
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