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Historical Event on 9/26/1996

Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1997135 persons killed in flash floods in Shimla & Kiannaur districts of Himachal Pradesh.
1/26/1930Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi march to protest against the Salt Act of the British and the same day Indians swore to get 'Total' Swaraj and organised the day as Swaraj Day.
7/28/1909Brahmanand Reddi Kasu, politician, was born at Madras.
1/22/1903Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta.
6/29/1901Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
3/1/1971General Election ( 5th) of India begins.
9/20/1996Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
5/13/1998World Bank cancels India donors meet.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.