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Historical Event on 4/26/1973

Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
11/12/1946Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85.
8/19/1944The last Japanese troops driven out of India.
2/3/1912Bardanand Chattergy, chemical expert, was born.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
11/14/1681East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency.
11/14/1681Genghis Khan, Monghol conqueror, passed away.
4/11/1999The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).
3/25/1999Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.