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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 10/26/1814 |
British General Governor declared war against Nepal. |
| 10/26/1886 |
Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born. |
| 10/26/1890 |
Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'. |
| 10/26/1891 |
Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, was born. |
| 10/26/1928 |
R.S.Das, a law member of the Viceroy's council, died in Calcutta. |
| 10/26/1930 |
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. |
| 10/26/1930 |
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. |
| 10/26/1932 |
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. |
| 10/26/1932 |
Chinadorai Deshmutu, Indian field hockey player (Olympics-1952), was born. |
| 10/26/1934 |
Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 10/26/1935 |
Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born. |
| 10/26/1937 |
Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born. |
| 10/26/1943 |
Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta. |
| 10/26/1946 |
27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta. |
| 10/26/1947 |
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. |
| 10/26/1950 |
Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India. |
| 10/26/1950 |
Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras. |
| 10/26/1952 |
Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts . |
| 10/26/1961 |
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. |
| 10/26/1962 |
After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President. |
| 10/26/1969 |
Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay. |
| 10/26/1981 |
Dattatrey Ramchandra Bendre, Gyanpeet awardee and Kannad poet, died. |
| 10/26/1990 |
V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay. |
| 10/26/1991 |
Anantrao Bhalerao, freedom fighter, journalist and editor of daily newspaper 'Marathwada', died. |
| 10/26/1995 |
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. |
| 10/26/1996 |
CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders. |
| 10/26/1999 |
India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| 10/26/1999 |
Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, visits cyclone-hit areas. |
| 10/26/1999 |
The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi's name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/27/1996 | General Election (11th) of India begins. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 11/25/1962 | Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away. |
| 12/23/1976 | Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor. |
| 12/23/1976 | The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali. |
| 8/25/1997 | Neelam J. Singh rewrites her own discussion mark in the domestic circuit meet in Chennai. |
| 8/15/1947 | Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the new boundaries of West Punjab, East Punjab, West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam. |
| 1/10/1975 | India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 9/20/1993 | First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit. |
| 5/12/1984 | Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar, social reformer, passed away at Madras. |
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