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Historical Event on 8/26/1852

Bombay Association was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1994Hindu Heritage Endowment, first Hindu international trust, was founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.
11/10/1992Attorney General G. Ramaswamy, under cloud for his dealings with Standard Chartered Bank, resigns.
9/1/1913Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, politician, social reformer, lawyer and athelete, was born.
4/15/1962S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.
1/18/1950Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away.
6/8/1906Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's 1st Test 1932), born at Jullunder.
8/1/1957National Book Trust inaugurated.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
12/29/1949Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras.
3/1/1971General Election ( 5th) of India begins.