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Historical Event on 4/18/1858
Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/22/1933 | Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
1/19/1995 | Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress. |
10/21/1995 | Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil. |
8/20/1969 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India. |
10/23/1959 | Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border. |
7/18/1992 | Kanandevi, famous Bengali actress, passed away. |
10/28/1911 | Mutyalswami Muniswami Naidu, cricket Test umpire, one test in 1951-52, was born at Vadodara, Gujarat. |
3/3/1952 | The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections. |
2/10/1916 | Revolutionary Sohanlal Pathak hanged. |
2/16/1942 | The third IAF unit to operate the Lysander was No.4 Squadron, formed with four aircraft on 16 February 1942. This squadron was to continue to operate the Westland aircraft until it too was re-equipped with the Hurricane in June 1943. |
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