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Historical Event on 10/18/1901
Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1957 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad elected President of India for a second term. |
| 4/18/1898 | Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials. |
| 11/12/1954 | Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper (India 1979), was born in Madras. |
| 8/21/1988 | 500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
| 5/26/1948 | First ever trade agreement with Pakistan. |
| 12/15/1980 | Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada. |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 8/9/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar, 23, chosen India's cricket captain. |
| 3/29/1982 | Delhi (707) beat Karnataka (705) on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy. |
| 10/23/1990 | Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government. |
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