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Historical Event on 5/18/1999
R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 10/10/1952 | US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. |
| 7/11/1979 | The Lok Sabha commenced a four-day debate on the no-confidence motion against the 21-month-old Janata Government. |
| 12/20/1999 | Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party Chief, opposes signing of CTBT. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 11/7/1858 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra |
| 2/2/1993 | Prices of iron and steel hiked. |
| 3/21/1921 | Indian National Congress decided it's Flag. |
| 3/15/1831 | First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji. |
| 1/11/1986 | The first MiG-27M fighter, built under license by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, is delivered and inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
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