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Historical Event on 5/18/1999

R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/4/1987Agney, famous Hindi litterateur and Gyanpeeth Award winning poet, passed away.
2/9/1991India holds the last decennial census of the century.
6/18/1997Prakash Padukone launches IBC.
11/24/1999The dedication ceremony of Shanmukhananda Hall is put off.
6/13/1940Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.
2/1/194217 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.
11/13/1909Gandhiji left England for South Africa and wrote ''Hind Swaraj'' on board S.S. Kildonan Castle.
9/14/1997Catholic churches in Kerala introduce the system of serving the holy Eucharist in the palm of the faithful instead of on the tongue.
8/3/1905Uma Datt Sraswat, famous writer, was born at Biswan in U.P.
4/12/1621Guru Teg Bahadur Singh, Sikh Guru, was born.