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Historical Event on 5/26/1931
One hundred miners were trapped beneath a blazing mine. It was thought that there were unlikely to be any survivors in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1999 | Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai. |
| 4/16/1966 | Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away. |
| 2/2/1970 | Bertrand Rusell, great philosopher, mathematician, author and chairmain of the Indian League, died at Merioneth, North Wales at the age of 98. |
| 9/10/1996 | Central Ethical Committee of ICMR on Human Research, constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice (Retired) M.N. Venkatachaliah, held its first meeting. Several sub committees were constituted to address specific topics viz. Epidemiological Research, Clinical Evaluation of Products to be Used on Humans, Organ Transplantation; Human Genetics, etc. |
| 4/24/1980 | Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief. |
| 2/1/1972 | International Airports Authority of India established. |
| 1/5/1953 | Andhra University celebrated its silver jubilee. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 12/23/1989 | V. C. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 11-12-1990. |
| 2/2/1917 | Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away. |
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