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Historical Event on 2/26/1972
President Varahgiri Venkat Giri inaugurated the Vikram Earth Satellite Station at Wardha near Arvi.
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| 7/21/1999 | The Janata Dal splits under Deve Gowda and Sharad Yadav. The latter group to support NDA. |
| 8/29/2000 | Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders. |
| 10/20/1752 | The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra. |
| 5/20/1776 | Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away. |
| 8/30/1645 | Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999. |
| 6/9/1923 | K. Alagirisami, famous journalist, playwright and story writer, was born. |
| 6/12/1952 | J&K Assembly decided to terminate hereditary monarchy. |
| 6/12/1952 | Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
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