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Historical Event on 8/18/1911
Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles. |
| 6/24/1969 | Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster), passed away. |
| 3/1/2000 | P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament. |
| 2/4/1991 | An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth. |
| 5/27/1992 | M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed. |
| 7/8/1930 | The King opens India House in the Aldwych, appealing for peace in India at London. |
| 3/15/1936 | Vasudevrao Apurao Changre, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 3/17/1989 | Daily newspaper 'Sakal' published its edition in South Maharashtra. |
| 2/20/1982 | The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone. |
| 3/10/1873 | Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born. |
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