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Historical Event on 1/18/1999
Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is selected for Bharat Ratna.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi wins a cliff-hanger as India clinches Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against Chile 3-2 in Delhi. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 6/5/1992 | Hindi weelky of Indian Express Group 'Screen' published. |
| 7/1/1929 | Ramchandra Ganpatrao Shinde, educationist, was born at Burhanpur, (M.P.). |
| 2/20/1968 | First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language. |
| 1/28/1992 | Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away. |
| 1/1/1914 | Dhirendra Nath Mukherji, social worker, was born at Bankura, West Bengal. |
| 2/25/1962 | India Congress Party wins elections. |
| 4/10/1901 | Amiya Chakravarty, educationist, was born at Serampore in West Bengal. |
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