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Historical Event on 1/18/1999
The office of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is ransacked allegedly by Shiv Sainiks protesting agains Pakistan team's tour of India. Shiv Sena denies hand in attack.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/1/1915 | Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born. |
4/13/1772 | Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company. |
3/26/1938 | Laxminath Bezbarua, great littearateur of modern Assamia language, passed away. |
12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
5/1/1992 | C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
3/17/1994 | Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants. |
8/3/1997 | Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes win the doubles title in the Canadian Maurier Super Nine Doubles Open tennis championships held in Montreal. |
9/3/1999 | Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil. |
8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
2/4/1944 | Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma |
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