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Historical Event on 10/26/1886
Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/21/1791 | Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 8/3/1886 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi. |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 5/1/1902 | Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives. |
| 1/28/1911 | The famous Hope diamond, once worn by Marie Antoinette, was bought tonight for over $300,000 by Ned McLean, son of John McLean. Mrs. McLean wore it as a head ornament, guarded by a former Secret Service man who in turn was guarded by two private detectives. Walnut-sized and exquisitely blue in color, the 44.5-carat stone stems from India. Its owners included Louis XIV, Louis XVI, and a London banker named Hope. A sinister history of ill luck, madness, and violent death clings to the unique gem. |
| 6/11/1901 | Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
| 2/24/1961 | Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/3/1900 | Tiruvenkata Rajendra Seshadri, one of the founders of Organic Chemistry in India, was born at Kulittalai in Tamil Nadu. |
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