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Historical Event on 5/26/1931
One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1993 | Naxals free Andhra Pradesh Congress (I) MLA P.Balaraju and a govt. official after 22 days in captivity. |
| 6/8/1897 | Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 3/8/1864 | Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912. |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 9/18/1917 | Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana). |
| 2/27/1956 | G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 3/16/1946 | India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'. |
| 3/19/1972 | India and Bangladesh singed mutual aid treaty for peace and friendship for 25 years. |
| 10/2/1999 | Ban orders in Madhepura Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. |
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