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Historical Event on 2/18/1871
Vithhalbhai Javherbhai Patel, great nation lover and veteran parliament member, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1750 | Tipu Sultan, tiger of Mysore, was born. He was the son of Hyder Ali and born at Devanhalli village near Bangalore. Hyder Ali named his son after a great Sufi saint namely Tipu Mastan Aulia. Tipu Sultan was a great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, musician and architect. |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 5/5/1966 | Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 10/26/1990 | V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay. |
| 1/25/1856 | Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians. |
| 1/2/1878 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and first president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, was born at Perunna village, Kerala State. |
| 1/2/1878 | Property Tax was passed. |
| 1/1/1981 | Colaba District renamed as Raigad District. |
| 11/1/1930 | S. R. Bose, cricket test umpire for one test in 1983-84, was born in Bihar. |
| 8/21/1988 | 500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale. |
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