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Historical Event on 4/26/1929
British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
| 3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 12/12/1905 | Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
| 12/10/1997 | Salman Haidar appointed India's High Commissioner to Britain. He succeeded M. L. Singhvi. |
| 11/30/1990 | Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff. |
| 6/10/1832 | Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born. |
| 3/9/1993 | 14 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra . |
| 5/1/2000 | Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
| 6/2/1990 | Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka. |
| 9/29/1971 | Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people. |
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