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Historical Event on 11/18/1839

P Barron discovered Nainital and he was the British sugar merchant of Shahjahanpur.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.
3/9/1858Bahadurshah Jafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was deported to Rangoon under the offence for rising of first Indian Mutiny in 1857.
5/26/1998S. Chandrasekar, scientist, was selected for the Niels Bohr-UNESCO gold medal.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
5/2/1930Riots break out in Amritsar.
9/30/2000Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.
4/30/1947The entire nation is stirred by religious strife.
1/10/1955The Auxiliary Air Force squadrons were equipped with the HAL-designed HT-2 trainer - officially introduced into service.
4/9/1997Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.
5/26/1885Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.