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Historical Event on 6/18/1896
Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 7/21/1936 | Vasantrao Vishnu Limye, senior journalist and President of 'Ratnagiri District Parishad', was born. |
| 6/13/1992 | Purushottam Diwakar Dhavle, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 2/15/1936 | Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs. |
| 1/22/1989 | Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds. |
| 6/30/1966 | Judge K. Subba Rao became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 11/04/1967. |
| 6/5/1927 | Sarjit Singh Bal, educationist, was born in Renala Khurd, Punjab. |
| 3/3/1859 | A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur. |
| 3/20/1782 | Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born. |
| 8/10/1963 | The Kamraj Plan. |
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