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Historical Event on 4/18/1926

Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1911Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India.
2/18/1911Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction.
7/6/1999The Indian High Commission staff member Yog Raj Vij, who was beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operatives, is released. India strongly condemns this assault.
2/3/1995The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, notified after 7 months of Presidential assent, becomes enforceable.
5/13/1967Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) retired from the post of second President.
7/29/1748Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry.
1/30/1994Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
9/21/1997I. K. Gujral and Nawaz Sharif discussed in New York the recent flare-up on Line of Control and firing across the border.The two agreed that such sources of tension should not be allowed.
8/27/1781Haider Ali and the Britishers fought the battle of Pallilore.
9/27/2000Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.