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Historical Event on 1/26/1999

21 dalits are gunned down by the Ranbit Sena in Jahanabad district in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
11/5/1870Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
9/30/1908Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born.
3/28/1963First meeting of the National Aeronautical Laboratory Executive Council held under the chairmanship of J R D Tata.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
12/9/1946The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy.
7/17/1996All 47 ministers in Madhya Pradesh submit resignations to CM Digvijay Singh.
11/19/199722 persons killed and 30 injured when car bomb explodes outside film studio in Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad. The deceased include Eanadu TV crew of six people.
6/25/2000The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.