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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent 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.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
06/20/1992The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate.
09/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
01/10/1993Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims.
06/11/1997Jaspal Rana and J. Abhijit in the men's section and Nisha Millet in the women's section adjudged best sports persons of the National Games.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
05/23/1931Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born.
02/16/1998Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league encounter in Chennai comes to an abrupt halt with Delhi skipper and batsman Ajay Sharma sighting boot marks short of the good length area.
07/05/1996Janata Dal expels dissident Maneka Gandhi from primary membership of the party.
07/14/1999Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
05/03/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.