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Historical Event on 1/18/1938
The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
11/2/1972 | ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India. |
1/22/1980 | Bal Ram Jakhar elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
10/9/1999 | Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion. |
9/18/1972 | India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971. |
12/11/1908 | New law suspends trial by jury and increases penalties for 'sedition.' |
7/23/1933 | Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country). |
1/28/1950 | Supreme Court of India was inaugurated. |
3/23/1923 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon. |
12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
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