Historical Events  - October 26

 1863 : The Football Association was founded.

1936 : The first electric generators on Hoover dams were fully operational.

1947 : After the partition of India Pakistan, the Hindu king of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir decided to go with India on the day of attack from Pakistan.

1956 : On the third day of the ongoing fighting between the protesters and the Soviet army, Hungarian new Prime Minister Imre Negi appealed to the people to maintain peace.

1958 : Pan American Airways launched its first commercial airline.

1994 : A peace treaty was signed between Israel and Jordan, ending the 46-year-old war.

1999 : National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) researcher VV Ranade was awarded a Golden Jubilee Fellowship by the Central Government.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 26  

899 AD: Alfred the Great, King of Wessex.

1270: Saint Namdev, Indian saint.

1890: Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist, and politician.

1891: Vaikuntha Mehta, Indian promoter of the Sahakari movement.

1900: Ezra Mir, Indian film director, the pioneer of documentary production.

1916: François Mitterrand, French statesman, the 21st President of France.

1919: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran.

1937: Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Indian musician, and singer.

1947: Hillary Clinton, American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, public speaker, and the 67th Secretary of State of the United States.

1954: Lakshmikant Berde, an Indian actor who worked in Hindi and Marathi films.

1974: Raveena Tandon, Indian actress.

1985: Asin, Indian actress.

1991: Amala Paul, Indian actress.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 26

1909: Ito Hirobumi, Japan’s first prime minister.

1930: Dr. Waldemar Huffkin, the microbiologist who invented the plague and cholera vaccine.

1957: Gerty Cori, an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist.

1979: Chandulal Nagindas Vakil, Indian economist.

1999: Eknath Isharanan, Indian-American writer and teacher.

2007: Arthur Kornberg, an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology.