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Historical Event on 1/26/1927

Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
4/15/1996Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
8/7/1990Union Cabinet approves setting up of Indian Broadcasting (Programme) Service.
5/2/1974700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
1/11/1999Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.
12/10/1948Human Rights Day.
4/16/1962Third Lok Sabha constituted after the third general election in India. J. L. Nehru forms the third Congress ministry.
12/11/1999Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
4/28/1996EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.