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Historical Event on 12/26/1997

Four MPs - Mr. Suresh Kalmadi from Pune, Mr. Anadi Charan Sahu from Cuttack, Mr. Mohan Delkar from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Mr. Gopal Tandel from Daman & Diu- resign from Congress(I).

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1931The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London.
6/3/1997Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.
8/4/1993Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
4/17/1990Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
11/8/2000India wins the men's team title in the World Carrom championship in New Delhi.
12/3/1955In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision in Article 343 (2) of the constitution, orders were issued for the use of Hindi language in addition to the English language for specific purposes of the union.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
1/25/1948French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament.