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Historical Event on 2/26/1857
First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
9/25/1857 | Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins. |
8/16/1958 | Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival. |
11/21/1963 | First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme. |
6/19/1990 | 13 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men. |
8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
7/25/1977 | B. D. Jathi retired from the post of second acting President. |
9/25/1999 | Eighth SAF Games inaugurated in Kathmandu. |
8/3/1898 | Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born. |
11/13/1995 | The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. |
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