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Historical Event on 1/18/1959
Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1930 | Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 5/20/1965 | Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit. |
| 2/12/1794 | Alijabahadar Mahadaji Shinde passed away. |
| 6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
| 5/10/1977 | Jahangir Khan, famous musician, passed away. |
| 2/13/1994 | Yashwant Narsingh Kelkar, senior historian and journalist in Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 1/11/1996 | Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi. |
| 9/24/1992 | Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges. |
| 7/22/1959 | Ananth Kumar was born in Banglore. He is a Minister in Vajpayee's Government. |
| 10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
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