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Historical Event on 10/26/1962

After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1971Noel David, Hyderabad off-spinner who played ODI in 1997, was born.
10/16/1942Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
5/17/1887Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away.
10/21/1994Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.
5/25/1877Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
6/1/1916Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar.
11/8/1831Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
8/6/1925Akbar himself left Agra.