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Historical Event on 7/18/1947

Indian Independence Act, signed by King George VI, was proclaimed as Indian Freedom Act, 1947.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1975President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
8/21/1987Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma elected the Vice President of India (1987 - 1992).
1/9/1889Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"".
9/1/1887Karmveer Bhaurao Paygaunda Patil, educationist, social reformer and founder of 'Rayat Educational Institute', was born.
7/30/1920Rikhye Maj-Gen Indar Jit, Educationist and Former Army Officer, was born at Lahore.
2/20/1997RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks.
8/7/1934Gandhi begins a fast for penance following the violent treatment of a Hindu leader by some of his followers.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
2/10/1930Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born.
1/31/1986Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away.