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Historical Event on 4/26/1993

Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/15/1947Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.
6/1/1972Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).
4/29/1979Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93.
12/16/1999The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.
5/20/1972Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.
10/2/1999Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
9/2/1956Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
12/11/1881Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.