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Historical Event on 2/26/1946

Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
11/22/2000Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
2/21/1878Mother-Pondicherry, greatest world teacher, was born in Paris.
8/28/1896Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, great musician and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Chembai in Kerala.
6/14/1880Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born.
9/28/2000Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
1/10/1693Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest.
10/25/1989P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad.