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Historical Event on 2/18/1931
Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1664 | Shivaji started Surat campaign and left the city after plundering the place. |
| 2/20/1928 | Abaji Narayan Pednekar, children's story writer, was born. |
| 2/20/1928 | Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
| 3/12/1988 | Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away. |
| 12/30/1935 | Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK. |
| 9/26/1975 | Notification to pay equal payment to both men and women workers was promulgated. |
| 4/28/1936 | Abdul Rashid 'Fida' (Kishtwari), great poet, was born. |
| 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. |
| 6/8/1998 | Sani Abacha, 54, Nigerian President, died in Abuja of heart attack. |
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