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Historical Event on 1/26/1997

Mizoram becomes a dry state, the fourth, after Gujarat, AP and Haryana.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/30/1999Services regained team title in the national boxing championship in Visakhapatnam.
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
3/18/1948Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
10/12/1976Kumarnath Bagchi, famous Indian chemist, died.
11/1/1913Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco.
6/24/1966Atul Chandrakant Bedade, cricketer (Indian ODI batsman from 1994), was born in Bombay.
3/27/1942Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"".
11/6/1952Dipal Jayant Tilak, journalist and editor, was born.
1/20/1817Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
1/29/1948Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.