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Historical Event on 1/26/1950
Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962.
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| 9/18/1879 | Welthy Housinger Fisher, an American adult educationist in India, was born. |
| 10/21/1997 | Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet. |
| 1/6/1976 | Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 12/11/1783 | Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away. |
| 9/4/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 1/29/1996 | S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president. |
| 6/13/1909 | E. M. S. Namboodiripad was born in Palghat in Kerala. |
| 3/27/2000 | After more than two-and-a-half-years, a Delhi court resumes trial in the St. Kitts forgery case following Delhi High Court's order upholding the lower court's verdict on framing of charges. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
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