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Historical Event on 3/26/1996
Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar announces retirement from international cricket.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 6/7/1979 | Bhaskara-I, first experimental satellite for Earth resources/meteorology remote sensing and the Second Satellite of India, launched. This satellite carried TV and microwave cameras. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle 'Intercosmos'. |
| 1/30/1908 | Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise. |
| 8/18/1872 | Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra. |
| 1/30/1991 | Union Government dismisses Karunanidhi government. President's rule imposed in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/18/1911 | Free primary school education is introduced. |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 7/7/1998 | Nag, indigenously developed anti-tank missile, is test-fired again. |
| 2/4/1948 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) banned. Finance Minister announces nationalisation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after Sept 30, 1948. |
| 10/29/1996 | Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'. |
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