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Historical Event on 2/18/1925
Krishna Sobati, famous Hindi authoress, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/1961 | Pamella Bordes, photographer and model, was born in New Dehli, India. |
| 2/27/1997 | CBI arrests godman Chandraswami for alleged offences in violation of Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 1976. |
| 12/28/1931 | The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him. |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 7/7/1946 | Gandhiji addressed the A.I.C.C. meeting at Bombay; Congress accepted the Cabinet Mission plan of May 16. |
| 11/18/1937 | 1,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year. |
| 4/12/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born. |
| 7/24/2000 | The trial in the Rs. 133 crore urea scam resumes after about one year in the special court for CBI cases in New Delhi. |
| 6/18/1901 | Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar, Marathi novelist and editor, passed away. |
| 3/21/1939 | Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow. |
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