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Historical Event on 12/26/1989
Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1911 | Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal. |
| 10/16/1994 | CIA connection to CN Annadurai alleged in book on Seshan, Jayalalitha obtains stay. |
| 9/30/1999 | A B Vajpayee, Prime Minister, calls upon the people at an election campaign in Lucknow to give him a five-year term. |
| 8/26/1967 | Dilawar Hussain, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper in the 1930's), passed away. |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
| 9/11/1999 | India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final. |
| 8/2/1877 | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, was born in Sagar, M.P. |
| 12/31/1943 | Ben Kingsley Scarborough, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice), was born. |
| 8/17/1998 | The Government issues a notification banning the use of quinacrine, a controversial female contraceptive and sterilization agent. |
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