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Historical Event on 10/26/1930

Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
2/14/1999Fifth National Games inaugurated at Imphal.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
1/20/1993Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away.
1/18/1992Muthuswami Pillai, father of Bharat Natyam classical dance, passed away.
3/2/1997Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth.
2/18/1996Kenya's first full One Day International Cricket match at Cricket World Cup vs India. Tendulkar scored 127* and India won over Kenya.
10/2/1952Community Development Programme started.
10/10/1946Noakhali Massacre.
10/10/2000The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.