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Historical Event on 2/18/1975

Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/2000Two Indians Aruna Roy from Rajasthan and Jockin Arputham, founder of the Indian National Slum Dwellers' Association, chosen for the Ramon Magsaysay award for public service.
12/1/1885Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar, famous Gandhian Gujrathi llitterateur and educationist, was born at Satara in Maharashtra.
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
9/26/1931Vijay Laxman Manjrekar, cricketer (father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman), was born in Bombay.
1/11/1991Five JD ministers at the Centre disqualified by Speaker Rabi Ray on the basis of anti-defection law.Five disqualified ministers who tendered their resignation were asked to continue in office by the PM.
12/3/1971Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries.
3/10/1997Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
6/18/1991Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.