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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
Date | Event Name |
03/18/1896 |
Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur. |
03/18/1915 |
British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people. |
03/18/1916 |
Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay. |
03/18/1919 |
Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people. |
03/18/1922 |
Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
03/18/1924 |
Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra. |
03/18/1938 |
Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc. |
03/18/1944 |
Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal. |
03/18/1944 |
Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India. |
03/18/1948 |
Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress. |
03/18/1948 |
Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973). |
03/18/1953 |
Backward Classes Commission inaugurated. |
03/18/1972 |
First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
03/18/1974 |
Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
03/18/1990 |
Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation. |
03/18/1991 |
West Bengal opts for assembly poll. |
03/18/1992 |
Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away. |
03/18/1996 |
President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces. |
03/18/1997 |
Indo-Bangladesh friendship treaty, signed 25 years ago, expires. |
03/18/1998 |
A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code. |
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Other Historical Dates and Events |
08/13/1995 | Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar. |
07/27/1914 | Kalpana Dutta, great freedom fighter, was born at Chatgaon. (27th July, 1914). |
06/05/1998 | Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997. |
09/04/1929 | N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka. |
06/18/1658 | Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan. |
01/01/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
05/28/1923 | Nandamuri Tarak Ramarao, film star, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and founder of Telgu Desam Party, was born. He has acted in many films including 'Patal Bhairavi'. |
04/26/1908 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
02/25/1844 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born. |
07/22/1998 | India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka. |
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