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Historical Event on 10/18/1901

Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/13/1772Narayan Rao became the Peshwa at Satara.
12/21/1999The Gujarat Government asks the Hindu Jagran March to go-ahead with the 'Shilanyas' for a Ram temple at Halmodi in Surat district.
1/24/1951Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi.
8/25/1996194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
4/10/1937Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
12/21/1956The Hindu Adoption Sub-Act 1956 was accepted.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
1/4/1937R. Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s), was born in Meerut.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
10/6/1935Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India.