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Historical Event on 7/18/1857
The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/18/1974 | Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away. |
| 9/24/1992 | India's Leander Paes defeats Britain's Jeremy Bates in the Davis Cup tie in New Delhi. |
| 6/21/1941 | Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India. |
| 9/9/1999 | Mahesh Bhupathi and Ai Sugiyama won the mixed doubles title in the U.S. Open. |
| 6/24/1966 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die. |
| 11/18/2000 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, said there would be no cuts in Income Tax rates in the next budget, and signalled that the reforms process will continue. |
| 11/11/1994 | The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act. |
| 4/2/1926 | The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta. |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 10/23/1999 | V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case. |
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