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Historical Event on 6/26/1983
Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1976 | Sandhya Chib, Miss India-Universe (1996), was born. |
| 9/25/1916 | Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, great litterateur, philosopher, social worker and first General Secretary of UP branch, was born at Dhankia village, Rajasthan. |
| 4/6/1919 | Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike. |
| 8/10/1991 | Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena. |
| 10/30/1994 | Swaran Singh, 87, former External Affairs minister, died. |
| 5/14/1995 | Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people. |
| 1/27/1995 | Rajiv Gandhi Container Terminal open at Kochi port. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 4/24/1973 | Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23), was born in Bombay. |
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