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Historical Event on 2/18/1911

Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.
9/13/1997Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
10/20/1997All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar.
6/1/1930Baba Adhav was born.
1/19/1932Balgovind Jaiswal, educationist and author, was born at Mhow.
10/20/1752The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.
12/7/1999A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, rejects the Opposition demand for resignation of three Central Ministers L. K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharati in the Ayodhya case.
12/17/1830Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died.
10/28/1997Gold import placed under Open General Licence.