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Historical Event on 6/18/1896

Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras.

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4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
7/8/1930The King opens India House in the Aldwych, appealing for peace in India at London.
12/27/1936Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism.
4/4/1996Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates.
6/23/1997Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange.
8/1/1957M. K. Vellodi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 04-06-1958.
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