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Historical Event on 8/18/1911
Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1995 | Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000. |
| 1/16/1901 | Mahadeo Govind Ranade, eminent social worker and thinker, passed away. |
| 12/26/1989 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away. |
| 7/12/1999 | India sets a deadline for intruders withdrawal from Kargil, announces suspension of air strikes. |
| 1/20/1949 | Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra. |
| 2/21/1998 | Romesh Bhandari, U.P. Governor, dismisses the Kalyan Singh Government and inducts an 18-member ministry headed by Jagadambika Pal of the Loktantrik Congress Party. BJP moves the Allahabad High Court. BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate, A. B. Vajpayee, goes on a ""fast-unto-death"". |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
| 11/3/1998 | The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India. |
| 6/11/1921 | Snehlata, social reformer and politician, was born at Mathura, U.P. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
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