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Historical Event on 1/26/1882

Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/14/1862Bombay High Court was established for Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu territory. This court has benches at Nagpur, Panaji and Aurangabad.
1/25/1980Awards regarding Public Honour were re-started by Goverment of India; Mother Teresa was honoured by Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, etc.
1/7/1859The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.
5/27/1919Kandukuri Veeresalingam, father of modern Telgu language, author and social reformer, passed away.
7/10/1992Dr. Najma Heptulla re-elected Dy. Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
11/25/1956Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians.
1/21/1981Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, passed away.
11/25/2000Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments agree on a ""unified command'' for the STF operations against Veerappa
12/23/1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.