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Historical Event on 12/26/1989

Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1930Riots break out in Amritsar.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
11/3/19843,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.
11/14/1967Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born.
11/1/1999Soli Sorbajee is re-appointed the Attorney General.
3/27/1942Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"".
1/29/1998Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.
6/9/1923K. Alagirisami, famous journalist, playwright and story writer, was born.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
11/14/1997Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.