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Historical Event on 1/26/1996
47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/1/1922 | Gandhiji gives notice to the Viceroy Lord Reading during Bardoli movement to inform him that he was intensifying his action and non-cooperation was to be escalated to Civil Disobedience. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 3/22/1933 | M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka. |
| 11/16/1991 | 60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 8/7/1998 | The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force. |
| 10/24/1990 | BJP-sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' in protest against L. K. Advani's arrest evokeed mixed response. |
| 2/10/1957 | Pranab Pankaj Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982), was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/20/1994 | Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
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