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Historical Event on 5/26/1945
Vilasrao Dagdojirao Deshmukh, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 7/7/1799 | Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers. |
| 1/4/1999 | Karnataka's Farah Khan made it three-in-a-row in the National ladies billiards championship in Delhi. |
| 11/11/1973 | India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi. |
| 4/15/1658 | Raja Jaswant Singh was defeated at Dharmat. He was sent by Shahjahan and Dara Shukoh to resist Aurangzeb's advance towards Agra. |
| 11/17/1925 | Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 6/5/1974 | Smallpox epidemic in the country. |
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