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Historical Event on 1/18/1938

The last batch of the political prisioners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/23/1983Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the seventh biennial Commonwealth Summit, meets in New Delhi.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
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.
10/31/1990Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.
8/4/1928Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born.
2/10/1897Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P).
6/1/1993Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated.
8/12/1966Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis.
2/11/1906Daily Tribune' started its printing from Lahore.
2/10/1902Hemraj, politician, was born at Dera Gopipur, (H.P.).