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Historical Event on 4/26/1992
Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/16/1948 | Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims. |
| 9/27/1974 | Pankaj Dharmani, Indian ODI batsman (1997), was born. |
| 7/15/1917 | Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra). |
| 4/15/1962 | S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964. |
| 3/16/1877 | Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous poet, Gujarati litterateur and Headmaster, was born. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 1/20/2000 | J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year. |
| 1/28/1925 | Raja Ramanna, fourth President of Indian Atomic Energy Commission, was born. |
| 3/29/1952 | India enters into a war with Japan. |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan 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. |
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