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Historical Event on 12/26/1801

Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/10/1985A. M. Prasad was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 30-04-1987.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.
1/3/1931Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born.
5/14/1995Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people.
8/4/1997Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
1/26/1876Railway route started between Mumbai and Calcutta.
2/17/1976New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
7/15/1992Lucknow High Court stays any construction activity near the disputed temple in Ayodhya.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.