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Historical Event on 1/26/1988
A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/21/1993 | R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries. |
| 1/3/1919 | Shambhu Pan, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1960-70, was born at Bengal. |
| 11/16/1877 | Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat |
| 6/9/1834 | Dr. William Carey, great writer and social worker, died. |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 4/1/1918 | Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain. |
| 1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
| 7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
| 2/25/1962 | India Congress Party wins elections. |
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