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Historical Event on 6/18/1974
Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/19/1929 | Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born. |
| 3/21/1836 | National Library was established. |
| 4/20/1960 | Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away. |
| 11/25/1956 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians. |
| 2/7/1997 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''. |
| 4/4/1910 | Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga. |
| 3/16/1928 | C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 4/6/1980 | Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President. |
| 11/28/2000 | Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Communications Minister, launches his political outfit 'Janashakti' at a rally in New Delhi. |
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