Year 1814
British General Governor declared war against Nepal.
OCTOBER 26
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26 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 26 October.
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Intersex Awareness Day
Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir, India)
Year 1863
The Football Association was founded.
Year 1930
Gulal Bai Parekar, a a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sergeant tried to snatch the flag and then kidnapped her.
Year 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.
Year 1934
Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
Year 1936
The first electric generators on Hoover dams were fully operational.
Year 1947
After the partition of India Pakistan, the Hindu king of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir decided to go with India on the day of attack from Pakistan.
Year 1947
Maharaja Hari Singh agreed to the accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India by signing the Instrument of Accession with India. This day is now also called ‘Accession Day’.
Year 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.
Year 1950
Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
Year 1956
On the third day of the ongoing fighting between the protesters and the Soviet army, Hungarian new Prime Minister Imre Negi appealed to the people to maintain peace.
Year 1958
Pan American Airways launched its first commercial airline.
Year 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.
Year 1962
After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.
Year 1969
Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.
Year 1994
A peace treaty was signed between Israel and Jordan, ending the 46-year-old war.
Year 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.
Year 1999
National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) researcher VV Ranade was awarded a Golden Jubilee Fellowship by the Central Government.
Year 1999
India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Year 2006
The India New Domestic Violence laws were passed. These laws aim at protecting women from domestic violence related to dowries and violence committed against women from partners, husbands, and in-laws. This law is termed as Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.
Born On This Day
899 AD: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.
Born 1270
Saint Namdev, Indian saint.
Born 1886
Pandit Godabarish Mishra was a poet and notable socialist known for his contribution to Odia literature.
Born 1890
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was a journalist and a leader of the INC and an independence movement activist. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'.
Born 1891
Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, Indian promoter of the Sahakari movement.
Born 1900
Ezra Mir, Indian film director, the pioneer of documentary production.
Born 1916
François Mitterrand, French statesman, the 21st President of France.
Born 1919
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.
Born 1923
Ram Prakash Gupta was the CM of Uttar Pradesh and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was a leader of BJP, as well as its predecessor party, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Born 1932
Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born.
Born 1935
Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
Born 1937
Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Indian musician, and singer.
Born 1947
Hillary Clinton, American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, public speaker, and the 67th Secretary of State of the United States.
Born 1950
Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
Born 1954
Lakshmikant Berde, an Indian actor who worked in Hindi and Marathi films.
Born 1971
Preeti Singh is an author who has been working as a professional writer since 15 years before authoring her two best-selling novels.
Born 1974
Raveena Tandon is an actress, model, and producer. Starting her career in modelling, Raveena later made her acting debut in Patthar Ke Phool, which won her the Filmfare Award for New Face of the Year.
Born 1978
Sussanne Khan is an interior and fashion designer.
Born 1985
Asin Thottumkal, also called Asin, is a former actress who appeared in Tamil, Hindi, and Telugu films. Aside from that she is a trained bharatanatyam dancer.
Born 1991
Amala Paul is an actress who mainly appears in Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu films.
Born 1995
Megha Akash is an actress who appears in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi language films.
Died 1909
Ito Hirobumi, Japan’s first prime minister.
Died 1928
R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta.
Died 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.
Died 1955
Pandit Dattatreya Vishnu Paluskar was a Hindustani classical vocalist who was considered a child prodigy.
Died 1957
Gerty Cori, an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist.
Died 1965
Sylvia Likens, 16-year-old group torture/murder victim in Indianapolis (b. 1949)
Died 1979
Chandulal Nagindas Vakil, Indian economist.
Died 1981
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre was a Kannada poet of the Navodaya Period.
Died 1990
V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay.
Died 1991
Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily newspaper 'Marathwada', died.
Died 1999
Eknath Easwaran was a spiritual teacher, author, translator, and interpreter of Indian religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads.
Died 2000
Manmath Nath Gupta was a revolutionary writer and author of autobiographical, historical, and fictional books in Hindi, English, and Bengali.
Died 2007
Arthur Kornberg, an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology.