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Historical Event on 4/26/1991

Syed Shahabuddin filed nominations for two seats as a candidate of two different parties within 24 hours.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/19/19842,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy.
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.
6/22/1880Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
3/15/1950Planning Commission Day.
8/16/1991Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
11/7/1998Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas.
2/22/1958Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.
4/13/1940Najma Heptulla, Vice President of Rajya Sabha, was born.