1774
The first Continental Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in Philadelphia.
1814
British General Governor declared war against Nepal.
1825
The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y.
1891
Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, was born.
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.
1934
Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
1943
Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
1950
Mother Teresa founded Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India.
1955
The Village Voice was first published, backed in part by Norman Mailer.
1958
The first New York – Paris transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by Pan Am, while the first New York – London transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by BOAC.
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.
1962
After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President.
1969
Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by ‘Apollo II ‘, and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.
1994
Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty.
1999
India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
1999
The Government rejected the demand that Rajiv Gandhi’s name be deleted from the chargesheet in the Bofors case.
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