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Historical Event on 3/26/1972

The first International Sanskrit Conference was held by President V.V Giri.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.
3/24/1944Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born.
3/24/1944Allau'd-din Khalji declared himself as King of Delhi after assissinating Jalal'ud-din Khalji. (19 0r 20).
9/27/1993Daily newspaper of Marathi Language ""Samna"" started its publication at Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad).
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
8/9/1909Vinayak Krishna Gokak, famous Kannad poet, play writer, critic of literature, educationist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born at Savanur.
6/14/1985M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985.
1/11/1990R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).
11/7/1996Cyclonic storm hits Andhra Pradesh.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.