On This Day
26 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1892 Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
- 1982 Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a stunt scene for the movie "Coolie".
- 1999 Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders. The day is celebrated in India as Kargil Diwas.
- 2009 India becomes the sixth country to launch nuclear submarine.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1609 English mathematician Thomas Harriot becomes the first person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope.
- 1847 Liberia became Africa's first republic.
- 1894 English writer Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World (1932), was born in Godalming, Surrey.
- 1965 The Republic of Maldives gained its independence from Britain.
- 1993 The first of four photos of Mars is taken by the Mars Observer, just under a month before the spacecraft failed in flight.
- ⭐ Significance
- Kargil Vijay Diwas is commemorated on 26 July in India, to observe India's victory over Pakistan in the Kargil War for ousting Pakistani Forces from their occupied positions on the mountain tops of Northern Kargil District in Ladakh in 1999.
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