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Historical Event on 7/26/1933

Gandhiji went back to Sabarmati Ashram after his release from jail.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/14/1907Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born.
6/26/1888Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.
1/28/1961Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.
3/8/1997G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
6/3/1998The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi.
5/24/1992D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away.