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Historical Event on 8/18/1990
Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1998 | BJP-led coalition government is sworn in. Atal Behari Vajpayee became the second time Prime Minister of India. |
| 1/25/1880 | Brahmo Samaj of modernisation and fraternity amongst religions Nababidhan Keshab Chandra Sen introduced. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
| 9/11/1950 | Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away. |
| 3/20/1998 | Rajesh Kumar Singh, CPI(ML) leader, is shot at Pandeypur village in Patna. |
| 11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
| 2/10/1961 | P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'. |
| 2/25/1909 | Gandhiji arrested at Volksrust; sentenced to 3 months. |
| 3/1/1903 | Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born. |
| 9/17/1864 | Anagrik Dharmapal, religious reformer, was born. |
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