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26th OCTOBER TODAY IN HISTORY - DINVISHESH GHADAMODI

Today in Indian History
Events for October 26

26-October-1814	British General Governor declared war against Nepal.
26-October-1886	Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born.
26-October-1890	Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.
26-October-1891	Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, was born.
26-October-1928	R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta.
26-October-1930	Dr. Waldemar Modecal Haffkine, famous scientist, bacteriologist and professor, died in Paris. He had invented the Cholera vaccine in 1893 and a vaccine for Plague in 1897 at the Grant Medical College, Bombay.
26-October-1930	Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her.
26-October-1932	Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.
26-October-1932	Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born.
26-October-1934	Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
26-October-1935	Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
26-October-1937	Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born.
26-October-1943	Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
26-October-1946	27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta.
26-October-1947	After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously.
26-October-1950	Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
26-October-1950	Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
26-October-1952	Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
26-October-1961	Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
26-October-1962	After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.
26-October-1969	Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.
26-October-1981	Dattatrey Ramchandra Bendre, Gyanpeet awardee and Kannad poet, died.
26-October-1990	V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.
26-October-1991	Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily newspaper 'Marathwada', died.
26-October-1995	India decides to go ahead with Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme in the wake of US stand to supply $370 million arms package to Pakistan.
26-October-1996	CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders.
26-October-1999	India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
26-October-1999	Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas.
26-October-1999	The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.