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.
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