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Person born on October 26
1270 - Bhakta Namdev Maharaj was born in a village named Narsibamani in the Satara district of Maharashtra in the family of a Shimpi.
1775 - Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of the Mughals in India, was born.
1886 - Godavarish Mishra - famous social reformer, litterateur and public activist of Orissa.
1890 - Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi - Journalist, Ganeshshankar Vidyarthi had an important contribution in the freedom struggle.
1923 - Ram Prakash Gupta - Famous leader of 'Bharatiya Janata Party' and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
1924 - Thakur Prasad Singh - was one of the poets of the Navgeet genre in India.
1933 - Sarekoppa Bangarappa - Former Chief Minister of Karnataka state and Indian politician.
1971 - Preeti Singh - An Indian litterateur, novelist and editor.
Died on 26 October
1947 - Lord Lytton II - was the British Governor of Bengal (1922–27 AD) and Manchuria.
1955 - D.V. Paluskar - Famous classical singer.
1956 - Balraj Bhalla - A famous Indian revolutionary and son of Mahatma Hansraj.
1981 - Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre - A famous Kannada poet and litterateur from India.
2000 - Manmathnath Gupta - Revolutionary and author.
2020 - Robert Daniel Menaker - was an American fiction writer and editor.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 26 October
- National Pumpkin Day.
- National Tennessee Day.
- National Mule Day.
- National Day of Deployment.
- Sri Ram Prakash Gupta Jayanti.
- Sri Sarekoppa Bangarappa Jayanti.
- National Minced Day.
- Shri Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Jayanti.
- National Financial Crime Fighter Day.
- 74th anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir merger.
- Bhakta Namdev Maharaj Jayanti (by date).
Important Events of 26 October
1708 - Construction of St. Paul's Cathedral in London is completed.
1774 - The First Continental Congress of America is adjourned in Philadelphia.
1858 - H. E. Smith patented the washing machine.
1905 - Norway gained independence from Sweden.
1934 - All India Rural Industries Association was established under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi.
1943 - Cholera epidemic in Calcutta (then Kolkata) kills 2155 people in the third week of October.
1947 – Raja Hari Singh agrees to merge Jammu and Kashmir with India when India is attacked by Pakistan after the partition of Pakistan.
1947 - British occupation of Iraq is lifted.
1950 - Saint Mother Teresa founded the Charity Mission in Calcutta.
1951 - Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
1955 - South Vietnam is established as a new country as a result of the conspiracies of Western governments.
1962 - After the Chinese attack on India, the then President declared emergency for the first time.
1969 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin arrive in Mumbai, the first astronauts to step on the moon.
1975 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the country's first president to make an official visit to the US.
1976 - The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Britain.
1980 - Israel's President Yitzhak Navon becomes the first Israeli president to visit Egypt.
1994 - The much-awaited peace treaty between Israel and Jordan at the Arava crossing is concluded, ending 46 years of war.
1999 - Supreme Court fixed the term of life imprisonment to 14 years.
2001 - Japan announces the lifting of sanctions against India and Pakistan.
2005 - Decided to celebrate the year 2006 as the Year of India-China Friendship.
2006 - A minister in Israel calls on India to investigate the Barak deal.
2007 - Discovery, the important spacecraft of the US space agency NASA, successfully landed on the International Space Station.
2007 - The US sanctions Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards and its banks.
2012 - 64 killed in violent clashes in Burma.
2012 – 41 killed, 50 injured in a suicide attack on a mosque in Afghanistan.
2015 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes the Hindukush Mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398, injuring 2536.
2019 - India, Bhutan and Nepal sign MoU to set up Trans Border Conservation Park.
2020 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomes the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan that comes into force from today.
2020 - Suman Dubey released his first novel “The Fixer: Winning Has A Price. How Much Will You Pay?" be released.
2020 - NASA confirms the presence of water in the sunny side of the Moon.
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