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Historical Event on 8/26/1914
Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
| 9/20/1997 | President K. R. Narayanan inaugurates the first Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/22/1913 | Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow. |
| 11/3/1998 | Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
| 2/23/1997 | 176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa. |
| 1/24/1994 | India sends six proposals to Pakistan to resolve bilateral problems. |
| 9/4/1921 | British govt. sends ultimatum to rebels in India, demanding their surrender within 48 hrs, at Madras. |
| 2/20/1985 | Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is ""Main Geet Bechtaa Hun"". |
| 12/31/1929 | At the Lahore session, under the Presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress adopted a resolution of 'Poorna Swaraj' (Complete Independence), the slogan given by Gandhiji. The tricolour flag of freedom was unfurled and 26th January 1930 was decided to be celebrated as Independence day every year. This session led to Civil Disobedience Movement, Dandi March to break the Salt Law, etc. |
| 7/16/1905 | A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat. |
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