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Historical Event on 4/26/1945

Virinchirpuram Krishnamurthi Ramaswamy, cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup), was born in Madras.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1908Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born.
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
9/12/1971Jaikishen, famous Hindi film music director, died.
2/20/1999India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.
4/22/1996Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr. Bhumidhar Barman became new CM.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
1/10/1963Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India.
12/7/1825First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.