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Historical Event on 8/26/1909
Dr.Moti Chandra, great historian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/30/1993 | S. M. Pandit, famous painter, passed away. |
| 4/19/1910 | Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged. |
| 6/23/1942 | Jabbar Patel, film producer, was born. |
| 8/7/1990 | Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission. |
| 6/1/1972 | Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS). |
| 8/19/1887 | S. Satyamurti, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Thirumeyyam in the former Pudukottah State. |
| 10/26/1935 | Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/23/1898 | Nalinibala Devi, Assamia poet, was born. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 2/10/1995 | PM appoints Madhavrao Scindia as Human Resource Minister, Pranab Mukherjee as External Minister, Buta Singh as Civil Supplies, Ajit Singh as Food, and P. Chidambaram as Commerce Minister. |
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