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Historical Event on 2/26/1915
Pran Nath Chhuttani, great physician and teacher, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/12/1996 | President S.D. Sharma in Kerala. |
| 12/25/1936 | Ismail Merchant, producer (Householder), was born in Bombay, India. |
| 1/25/1917 | Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 5/29/1977 | Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, president of Sahitya Academy, National Professor and eminent linguist, passed away. |
| 5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
| 2/24/1996 | Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 9/1/1999 | Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died. |
| 11/14/1681 | East India Company declared Bengal as a seperate presidency. |
| 2/8/1989 | Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
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