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Historical Event on 10/26/1996

CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/22/1702The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company.
2/5/1924Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona.
9/17/1934Gandhiji announced his decision to retire from politics from October one to engage himself in the development of village industries, Harijan service and education through basic crafts.
9/20/1928Narayan Guru ""Nanu"" of Kerala entered in maha Samadhi. His teachings are held in great reverence even today.
1/4/1906Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
6/17/1995Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first.
8/15/1921Amrit Rai, novelist and translater, was born .
3/7/1996Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians.