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Historical Event on 7/26/1922
Girilal Jain, famous journalist and editor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/25/1982 | Gyani Zail Singh became 7th President of India. He held the office till July 25, 1987. |
| 8/29/1612 | Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese. |
| 8/4/1933 | Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order. |
| 12/11/1987 | Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion. |
| 12/11/1987 | Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab. |
| 4/2/1980 | Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party. |
| 11/28/1945 | Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs India at Calcutta. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
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