320 – Chandragupta I is officially crowned as the first Gupta Emperor on 26 February in 320 AD. 1966 - Death of Vinayak Damodar Savarka r on 26 February 1966. Popularly known as Veer Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a great revolutionary and later on a leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. Savarkar was born on 28 May 1883 to a Marathi Hindu Chitpavan Brahmin family to Damodar and Radhabai Savarkar in Bhagur in the Nashik district in Maharashtra. He had three other siblings: two brothers, Ganesh and Narayan, and a sister named Mainabai. In 1899 he established the first revolutionary society the Mitra Mela (Friends Association) , which was named as the Abhinav Bharat Society (New India Society) in 1904. In 1906 Savarka r went to England and became a member of the revolutionary group led by Shyamji Krishna Varma . On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Revolt of 1857, he wrote a famous book in which he called the Revolt the First war of Indian ...
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