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Historical Event on 12/26/1989

Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1882Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great professor, politician, physician, leader and veteran nationalist, was born at Patna.
11/29/1948Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
11/17/1994Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.
2/10/1921Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated Kashi Vidya Peeth.
3/30/1908Devika Rani, famous film actress, was born.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.
12/25/1846Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away.
8/13/2000The Government announces the opening up of the national long distance communication segment with no restriction on the number of players.
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.