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Historical Event on 11/18/1948
Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/15/1998 | Golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Independence ends. |
| 2/11/1935 | Lalita Narhar Bapat, famous marathi novelist, was born. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 5/7/1973 | The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 5/28/1895 | Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born. |
| 1/19/1992 | Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away. |
| 8/10/1927 | Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu, first Indian astronomer, litterateur and Urdu poet, was born at Madras. |
| 4/13/1851 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department, Punjab, was born at Mangtanwala, now in Pakistan. |
| 5/18/1772 | Janoji Bhosle, warrior in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
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