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Historical Event on 5/26/1935
Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1966 | Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 8/15/1985 | Accord reached on the Assam foreign nationals issue, agitation called off. |
| 5/5/1977 | Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 2/23/1962 | Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started. |
| 5/11/1930 | Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 3/19/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
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