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Historical Event on 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.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/26/1973 | Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977. |
10/29/1996 | Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'. |
8/11/1961 | Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States. |
10/1/1886 | Baluchisthan became a part of India. |
2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
2/18/1905 | Indian Home Rule Society was founded at London by Shyamji Krishna Varma. |
2/18/1905 | Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born. |
5/15/1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
11/25/1962 | Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away. |
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