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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.

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9/18/1990Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.
4/29/1960Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away.
1/31/1996Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
1/26/1927Laxman Madhav Katre, former Indian Air Chief Marshall, was born.
11/28/1956Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India.
11/2/1841Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
6/24/1946Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
2/14/1989Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985.