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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
1/19/1951Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkarbappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, passed away.
3/26/1999Indian Airlines regained the National hockey men's title in Hyderabad.
7/12/1996Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys.
9/7/1998Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
7/15/1948Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union).
11/8/1947Junagadh accedes to India. Addresses A.I.C.C.
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
3/7/1647Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
9/1/1934Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal.