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Historical Event on 2/26/1984
Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/19/1993 | Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 6/12/1997 | Sitaram Kesri elected president of Congress I (6224 votes. Sharad Pawar-888; Rajesh Pilot-354). |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 1/19/1951 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away. |
| 4/28/1992 | Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
| 6/30/1986 | Mizoram became the state of India. |
| 11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
| 1/6/1972 | America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean. |
| 3/20/1920 | Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts. |
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