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Historical Event on 4/18/1971
Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1628 | Shahjahan was enthroned and proclaimed emperor at Agra. |
| 8/7/1887 | Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born. |
| 4/15/1794 | Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 7/29/1994 | Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants. |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
| 2/19/1855 | U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 2/17/1997 | Anand finishes sixth in the City of Linares category 19 chess where Kasparov makes in four-in-a-row. |
| 1/8/1890 | Ramchandra Varma, renowned editor, was born. He also has the credit in making the Hindi Dictionary. |
| 11/16/1835 | Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19). |
| 5/6/1948 | India rejected the Security Council's plan for UN supervision over plebiscite in Kashmir. |
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