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Historical Event on 6/26/1982

First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay).

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/24/1987Dr. M.G.Ramachandran, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, died. He was 70 yrs. He was posthumously awarded the 'Bharat Ratna' by the President of India. (17-1-90).
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
4/2/1970Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
4/5/1922Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away.
1/1/1879Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born.
9/8/1953Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
11/1/2000Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi.
4/11/1992Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).