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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 04/26/1858 |
Kunwar Singh, revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, passed away. He fought his last battle near Jagdishpur, Bihar on April 23, 1858 and defeated the Britishers but was deeply wounded. He also organised the national rebels. |
| 04/26/1479 |
Vallabhacharya, founder of 'Pushthimarg Panth', was born. |
| 04/26/1762 |
Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur. |
| 04/26/1813 |
Swati Tirunal Ramavarma, outstanding composer of Carnatic music in Kerala, was born in a royal family of Travancore. |
| 04/26/1841 |
Bombay Gazette begins publishing on silk. |
| 04/26/1895 |
Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
| 04/26/1908 |
Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 04/26/1920 |
Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 04/26/1924 |
Ramabai Ranade, social reformer, passed away. She played a major role in the upliftment of women in India and founded Sevasadan in Bombay, a hostel for the ladies. |
| 04/26/1926 |
Karachi Autonomous Region established in RSFSR (until 1943). |
| 04/26/1929 |
British fliers make a record nonstop 4,130-mile trip from London to India. |
| 04/26/1945 |
Virinchirpuram Krishnamurthi Ramaswamy, cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup), was born in Madras. |
| 04/26/1946 |
V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter. |
| 04/26/1952 |
India says U.N. may disintegrate if powers block consideration of issues in small countries. |
| 04/26/1973 |
Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977. |
| 04/26/1990 |
V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh. |
| 04/26/1991 |
Syed Shahabuddin filed nominations for two seats as a candidate of two different parties within 24 hours. |
| 04/26/1992 |
Gyanapith award winner Prof. V.K.Gokak (82) passes away. |
| 04/26/1992 |
Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her. |
| 04/26/1993 |
Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers. |
| 04/26/1995 |
Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
| 04/26/1995 |
SAARC decides to launch South Asia Preferential Trade Area (SAPTA). |
| 04/26/1999 |
India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner. |
| 04/26/1999 |
The President dissolves Lok Sabha and orders fresh elections. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 05/22/1963 | Rohini, Glider, became the first to successfully fly at Kanpur. |
| 03/11/1975 | Battle between Marathas and Nizam at Kharda. |
| 05/01/1981 | Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State. |
| 03/11/1989 | In Bihar, a 13-member ministry headed by Satyendra Narain Sinha, MP, was sworn in. |
| 01/17/1985 | Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test vs England. |
| 08/12/1897 | Major Gegeral Himmat Singh, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Duputy Defence Minister, was born. |
| 04/05/1979 | First Naval Museum of India established in Bombay. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 08/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
| 10/15/1994 | SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV. |
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