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Historical Event on 4/18/1926
Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/25/1975 | Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/1/1982 | MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 7/29/1993 | Two bills seeking to delink religion from politics and to empower the EC to debar parties with religious names introduced in Lok Sabha. |
| 1/10/1955 | The Auxiliary Air Force squadrons were equipped with the HAL-designed HT-2 trainer - officially introduced into service. |
| 1/15/1898 | Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, educationist and scientist, was born at Taluq Malvan, Maharashtra. |
| 10/29/1851 | British Indian Association was established in Bengal with Radha Kanta Dev as president and Devendranath Tagore as the Secretary. |
| 8/25/1997 | 10,000 people residing in low lying areas in Gujarat shifted to safer places following incessant rains for two days. Death toll mounts to 265. |
| 1/1/1918 | Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission. |
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