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Historical Event on 6/18/1887
Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, freedom fighter, educationist, leader and Minister of India, was born in Poiyavan village, Gaya district, Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/12/1752 | Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar. |
| 11/28/1962 | K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 12/27/1931 | 150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province. |
| 6/16/1859 | Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 12/10/1761 | Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10). |
| 7/7/1973 | 78 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India). |
| 7/24/1994 | Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India. |
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