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Historical Event on 10/26/1969

Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1941C. Y. Chintamani died.
10/5/1676East India company got authority from the King of England to mint Indian currencies 'Rupee and Paise' coins in Bombay.
7/21/1993Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.
12/15/1999Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
1/8/1925Mohan Rakesh, veteran Hindi playright, was born. His noted books are ""Aadhe Adhure"" and ""Aashaad Ka Ek Din"".
3/22/1949SSC Examination system started.
9/4/1996Celebration of Platinum jubilee of B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital and Topiwal National Medical College from 4th September 1995 to 4th September 1996 (CIVIC).
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
4/1/1918Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.