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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 |
| 11/18/1999 | Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 8/2/1880 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 3/1/2000 | Gopichand wins the Indian Oil Servo National badminton championship at Kochi-making it four in a row. |
| 6/14/1991 | Punjab was declared ""disturbed area""; army deployed. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 11/2/1971 | Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives. |
| 10/1/1847 | Annie Besant, famous philosopher and thesophist, was born in London. |
| 1/26/1993 | Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest. |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
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