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Historical Event on 8/18/1956

Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/19481. Bomb exploded near Birla House during a prayer meeting of Gandhi. 2. Three member UN Commission for investigation/mediation on Kashmir. 3. K.M. Cariappa succeeded Lieutenant General D. Rissell as the Army Commander, Delhi and East Punjab and was responsible for conducting the operation in Kashmir.
2/11/1913Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa).
5/15/1958Gift Tax Act was introduced.
12/25/1974Indian Aeroplane Jumbo 747 was hijacked and taken over to Rome.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
8/22/1988Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
11/19/1996Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, passed away at 90.
9/1/1962Shivaji University was established in Kolhapur.
4/15/1946The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.