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🎯 *26 October History*
According to the Gregory calendar, 26 October is the 299th day of the year (300th in a leap year). There are still 66 days left in the year.
🔖 *Important events of 26 October*
1774 - First Continental Congress of America adjourned in Philadelphia.
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the washing machine.
1905 - Norway gains independence from Sweden.
1934 - Establishment of All India Rural Industries Association under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi.
1943 - Cholera epidemic in Calcutta (erstwhile Kolkata) killed 2155 people in the third week of October.
1947 - Raja Hari Singh agreed to merge Jammu and Kashmir with India.
British army removed from Iraq.
1950 - Saint Mother Teresa establishes charity mission in Calcutta.
1951 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the first astronauts to travel to the moon, arrived in Mumbai.
1975 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first President of the country to make an official visit to the US.
1976 - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago gets independence from Britain.
1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Nawon becomes the first Israeli President to visit Egypt.
1994 - Long-awaited peace treaty on Arava crossing between Israel and Jordan concluded.
1999 - Supreme Court fixes life imprisonment for 14 years.
2001 - Japan announces the lifting of sanctions against India and Pakistan.
2005 - Decision to celebrate 2006 as the Year of India-China Friendship.
2006 - A minister in Israel demands an inquiry from India on the Barak deal.
2007 - US space agency NASA's flagship vehicle successfully landed at Discovery International Special Station. The US banned the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran and the banks there.
2012 - 64 people killed in violent clashes in Burma.
41 killed, 50 injured in a suicide attack in a mosque in Afghanistan.
2015 - A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits 398 people, 2536 injured in the Hindukush mountain range of northeastern Afghanistan.
🔷 *Person born on 26 October*
1775 - Bahadur Shah Zafar - The last emperor of the Mughals in India.
1924 - Thakur Prasad Singh - was one of the poets of the Newcomer genre in India.
1971 - Preeti Singh - Indian writer, novelist and editor.
1923 - Ram Prakash Gupta - Famous leader of 'Bharatiya Janata Party' and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
1890 - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi contributed significantly in the freedom struggle.
1886 - Godavarish Mishra - Famous social reformer, litterateur and public activist of Orissa.
🏴 *Died on 26 October*
1947 - Lord Linton II - British Governor of Bengal (1922–27 AD) and Manchuria.
1955 - DV Paluskar, famous classical singer
1981 - Dattatreya Ramchandra Bendre - India's famous Kannada poet and litterateur
2000- Manmathnath Gupta - Leading revolutionary and author
1956 - Balraj Bhalla - son of famous revolutionary and Mahatma Hansraj.
According to the Gregory calendar, 26 October is the 299th day of the year (300th in a leap year). There are still 66 days left in the year.
🔖 *Important events of 26 October*
1774 - First Continental Congress of America adjourned in Philadelphia.
1858 - H.E. Smith patented the washing machine.
1905 - Norway gains independence from Sweden.
1934 - Establishment of All India Rural Industries Association under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi.
1943 - Cholera epidemic in Calcutta (erstwhile Kolkata) killed 2155 people in the third week of October.
1947 - Raja Hari Singh agreed to merge Jammu and Kashmir with India.
British army removed from Iraq.
1950 - Saint Mother Teresa establishes charity mission in Calcutta.
1951 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the first astronauts to travel to the moon, arrived in Mumbai.
1975 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first President of the country to make an official visit to the US.
1976 - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago gets independence from Britain.
1980 - Israeli President Yitzhak Nawon becomes the first Israeli President to visit Egypt.
1994 - Long-awaited peace treaty on Arava crossing between Israel and Jordan concluded.
1999 - Supreme Court fixes life imprisonment for 14 years.
2001 - Japan announces the lifting of sanctions against India and Pakistan.
2005 - Decision to celebrate 2006 as the Year of India-China Friendship.
2006 - A minister in Israel demands an inquiry from India on the Barak deal.
2007 - US space agency NASA's flagship vehicle successfully landed at Discovery International Special Station. The US banned the Islamic Revolutionary Guards of Iran and the banks there.
2012 - 64 people killed in violent clashes in Burma.
41 killed, 50 injured in a suicide attack in a mosque in Afghanistan.
2015 - A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits 398 people, 2536 injured in the Hindukush mountain range of northeastern Afghanistan.
🔷 *Person born on 26 October*
1775 - Bahadur Shah Zafar - The last emperor of the Mughals in India.
1924 - Thakur Prasad Singh - was one of the poets of the Newcomer genre in India.
1971 - Preeti Singh - Indian writer, novelist and editor.
1923 - Ram Prakash Gupta - Famous leader of 'Bharatiya Janata Party' and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
1890 - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi contributed significantly in the freedom struggle.
1886 - Godavarish Mishra - Famous social reformer, litterateur and public activist of Orissa.
🏴 *Died on 26 October*
1947 - Lord Linton II - British Governor of Bengal (1922–27 AD) and Manchuria.
1955 - DV Paluskar, famous classical singer
1981 - Dattatreya Ramchandra Bendre - India's famous Kannada poet and litterateur
2000- Manmathnath Gupta - Leading revolutionary and author
1956 - Balraj Bhalla - son of famous revolutionary and Mahatma Hansraj.
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◾ Girish Chandra Murmu is the first Lieutenant-Governor of J&K
◾ Radha Krishna Mathur has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh
◾ Satya Pal Malik has been appointed as New Governor of Goa
◾ PS Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed as New Governor of Mizoram
◾Dineshwar Sharma named new Administrator of Lakshadweep
◾ Girish Chandra Murmu is the first Lieutenant-Governor of J&K
◾ Radha Krishna Mathur has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh
◾ Satya Pal Malik has been appointed as New Governor of Goa
◾ PS Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed as New Governor of Mizoram
◾Dineshwar Sharma named new Administrator of Lakshadweep