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Historical Event on 1/26/1882
Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1905 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away. |
| 11/5/1999 | Malcom Marshall, legendary West Indian fast bowler, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after battling colon cancer for over six months. |
| 1/12/1895 | Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow, saintly scientist and nobel prize winner, was born at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 3/22/1977 | Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha. |
| 2/28/1930 | Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus. |
| 11/15/2000 | Congress(I) gives a thumping mandate to Sonia Gandhi. |
| 5/29/1977 | Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, president of Sahitya Academy, National Professor and eminent linguist, passed away. |
| 12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
| 11/19/1910 | Gohar alias Gohar A. Kayoum Mamajiwala was born at Lahore. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Fortune & Fools' (1925). Other films were 'Lanka Ni Laadi', 'Handsome', 'Briefless Barrister', 'Thief of Delhi', 'Punjab Mail', 'My Darling' and 'The Web'. |
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