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Historical Event on 2/26/1966

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.

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8/20/1997Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
1/31/2000All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged.
5/31/1996J. H. Patel sworn in Karnataka CM.
8/1/1986Amnesty scheme for evaders of taxes announced.
3/21/1973Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
9/20/1993Narsimha Rao, Prime Minister, arrives in Teheran on a three-day visit.
9/1/1908Amir Elahi, right-hand batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler, born at Multan in Lahore.
2/28/1963Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India, passed away at Sadaqat Ashram, Patna.
2/2/1788Pitt's Regulatory Act was was introduced to modify the Indian Administration and put further controls on Government of India after the 1784 Bill.