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Historical Event on 1/26/1981

Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1849Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education.
12/15/1859S. Kasturiranga Ayengar, owner of Hindu newspaper, was born.
9/19/1962Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War.
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
6/25/1908Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
4/16/1958Raghuram Adwai Bhat, great Indian left-arm spinner 1983-84, was born at Mangalore.
1/7/1988Mrs. Janaki Ramachandran sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.