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Historical Event on 7/26/1923

Mukeshchandra Mathur, famous playback singer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/2/1900Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away.
8/21/2000Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee.
7/16/1996The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
3/30/1993Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
9/5/1904Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
4/29/1957The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
1/18/1942Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.
11/3/1997India presents G-15 with agenda for a fair deal in Kuala Lumpur. India calls upon Group of 15 developing countries to ""build convergences among nations and encourage G-7 to pursue structured and issue-based dialogue with us'