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Historical Event on 2/18/1992
Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1911 | Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
| 7/2/1950 | Yusuf Meharali, socialist leader, died. |
| 12/27/1998 | Churches and missionary schools come under attack and many were injured in a fresh outbreak of communal violence in Surat and Dangs district of Gujarat even as the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad announce the stepping up of their stir against the alleged conversion of Hindus. |
| 12/11/1906 | Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka. |
| 12/8/1897 | Balkrishna Sharma ""Navin"", famous Hindi poet, was born in Bhyana village of Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh |
| 2/25/1920 | Balraj Madhok was born. |
| 2/23/1996 | North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated. |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
| 8/20/1974 | Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President. |
| 11/30/1858 | Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh). |
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