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Historical Event on 5/26/1983

R. V. Marathe, father of Postal Index, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
2/18/1975Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away.
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
9/21/1945British promise India independence.
5/23/19961995-96 deficit touches a new high at Rs.19,855 crore.
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
9/5/1997CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.
6/9/1752French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
11/3/1999Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal.