History Of 26 April | On This Day In World

In the history of the World, some other important events recorded on the date of 26 April are as follows: -

➧ 1654: Jews expelled from Brazil.

➧ 1864: Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi, a disciple of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and one of the five prominent leaders of the Arya Samaj, was born.

➧ 1903: Gandhiji started advocacy in South Africa and established the British Indian Association there.

➧ 1920: The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan died.

➧ 1928: 'Madame Tussauds exhibition' famous for wax sculptures was shown in London.

➧ 1961: Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, died.

➧ 1962: For the first time, an American spacecraft touched the lunar surface. The spacecraft Ranger-4 stepped on the lunar surface. It was the first American spacecraft to reach the moon. Due to technical disturbances, its contact with the earth was broken and it could not send pictures of the lunar surface.

➧ 1975: Sikkim became the 22nd state of India. Earlier on April 14, a referendum was held in Sikkim and the people there voted in favor of the inclusion of Sikkim in the Indian Union.

➧ 1980: Positional astronomy center Calcutta (now Kolkata) inaugurated.

➧ 1984: US President Ronald Reagan arrives in China on a six-day tour.

➧ 1986: A nuclear accident occurred in Chernobyl in Ukraine province of the then Soviet Union, causing large amounts of radioactive radiation.

➧ 2000: World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated globally on 26 April every year. It was founded in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) "to raise awareness of the effects of patents, copyrights, trademarks and designs on daily life" and "to celebrate creativity in Saare Jahan and the development of societies by creators and innovators" Was established "to contribute to."

➧ 2008: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country.

➧ 2020: NTPC announced that it will provide hydrogen fuel electric cars and buses to Delhi and Leh. For this, the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) invited Expression of Interest (EOI). NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), a subsidiary of NTPC, will work to provide 10 such cell-based buses and cars.

➧ 2020: India's chemicals and petrochemicals industry became the top export sector for the first time during the last financial year. India's chemical exports rose 7.43 percent to Rs 2.68 lakh crore between April 2019 and January 2020. This is 14.35 percent of the total exports.

➧ 2020: Government of Madhya Pradesh launched "Jeevan Shakti Yojana" for women. Under this scheme, women from urban areas can earn by making masks at home. The government will pay them 11 rupees per mask.

➧ 2020: A team of scientists confirmed that the largest hole in the ozone layer has successfully recovered itself above the Arctic. The hole was 1 million square kilometers wide, identified by scientists in March 2020. The hole was formed after unusual atmospheric conditions.

➧ 2020: Premier multilateral air combat training exercise pitch black 2020 was scheduled from 27 July to 14 August, it was canceled by Australia due to the effects of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19. The next version is scheduled for 2022.

➧ 2020: Devanand Konwar, former Governor of Bihar and Tripura and Veteran Congress leader, died at the age of 86 in Guwahati, Assam. He was born in 1934 in Sivasagar, Assam.

➧ 2020: International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day is observed every year on 26 April. The day is reminiscent of the 1986 explosion in the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pipariat in the north of Soviet Ukraine. This year marks the 34th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.