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Historical Event on 5/18/1926

Naranjan Bhagat, famous Gujrathi poet, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1993Girilal Jain, 71, The Times of India editor, died.
11/3/1992Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away.
10/30/1908Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar, freedom fighter and social worker, was born at Pasumpon village, Tamil Nadu.
8/2/1993CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission.
5/14/1953Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957.
12/12/1959Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President, came to India.
8/16/1923Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born.
2/1/1917Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.
6/18/1896Cota Ramaswami, cricketer (Davis Cup for India 1922, Test 1936), was born in Madras.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.