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Historical Event on 1/26/1981

Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1994Dr. S.P. Tripathy, Director-General of ICMR, retired after 32 years of distinguished service in the ICMR, and Dr. G.V. Satyavati took over as the new Director-General of ICMR in July 1994. She became the first woman scientist in the country to head not only ICMR but any Research agency in independent India.
8/1/1879Achyut Balwant Kolhatkar, famous litterateur and journalist, was born.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
6/7/1996Sq. Ldr. Sanjay Thapar of IAF becomes the first Indian to jump from a parachute and hoist the national flag at the North Pole.
8/1/1957National Book Trust inaugurated.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.
7/21/1883Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.
3/28/1991IAF men die in an air crash in Bangalore.
2/4/1909Narayan Dattatreya Sane, two test cricket umpire 1959-60, left-hand opening batsman and fast bowler, was born at Vidarbha.