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Historical Event on 8/15/1918
Hans Kumar Tiwari, famous poet and translater, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/30/1997 | Mahatma Gandhi's ashes immersed in Sangam. |
| 1/16/1924 | In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died. |
| 3/29/1992 | The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar. |
| 12/25/1974 | Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome. |
| 5/25/1995 | Voting on the Criminal Law Bill differed again in Rajya Sabha. |
| 10/29/1930 | Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail. |
| 4/8/1994 | Dr. Wilfred D'Souza re-installed as Goa CM. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 12/3/1991 | Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan. |
| 5/8/1906 | Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born. |
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