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Historical Event on 6/26/1888

Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1999India's Aarthie Ramaswamy won the girl's under-18 crown in the World Youth Chess Festival in Oropesa, Spain. Koneru Humpy bagged the silver in girls' under-12.
5/14/1999Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India
4/15/1992D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
5/29/1933Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away.
1/31/1983The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah.
9/20/1856Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste.
2/1/1831The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
12/19/2000The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case.