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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 |
| 9/20/1928 | Narayan Guru ""Nanu"" of Kerala entered in maha Samadhi. His teachings are held in great reverence even today. |
| 5/25/1965 | Independent India had further clashes with Pakistan in 1965 and 1971, one over the intractable Kashmir dispute and the other over Bangladesh. A border war was also fought with China in 1962 in the North-Eastern region, which resulted in the loss of Aksai Chin in Ladakh and smaller areas in the North-east. India continues to dispute sovereignty over these areas. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 5/29/1972 | Prithviraj Kapoor, famous film actor, passed away. |
| 12/23/1998 | Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour. |
| 8/1/1962 | Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation. |
| 8/7/1887 | Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 4/1/1962 | Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 11/3/1998 | The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India. |
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