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Historical Event on 12/26/1978

Indira Gandhi released after week in jail for refusing to testify on corruption.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/2/1955A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak.
6/27/1906Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'.
3/1/1997India `A' blanks Sri Lanks 5-0 in the inaugural tennis `Tests' in Delhi.
12/1/1974Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, passed away.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
10/27/1923Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born.
3/11/1997Sadhana Mukherjee, a sex-worker from Calcutta, represents India at the first international conference on prostitution beginning in Los Angeles.
11/25/1998Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era.
3/13/1878The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper.
6/5/1989Missile `Trishul' tested successfully.