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Historical Event on 9/26/1931
Vijay Laxman Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1984 | An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid. |
| 12/26/1925 | Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born. |
| 12/20/1946 | Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur. |
| 12/7/1992 | Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
| 6/4/1903 | Gandhiji established the weekly journal ""Indian Opinion"" organised at Phoenix farm near Durban. |
| 5/28/1998 | India takes retaliatory measures against Australia for its unilateral action. |
| 5/10/1927 | Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 8/13/1638 | Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, was born at Salwa. |
| 12/20/1757 | Clauk became Governor of Bengal. |
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