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Historical Event on 4/18/1859
Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/29/1885 | A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay. |
| 7/28/1921 | The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth. |
| 9/14/1893 | Celebration of 'Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav' (Festival of Lord Ganesha) started. |
| 10/23/1883 | Mirza Mohammad Ismile, Diwan of Mysore and Prime Minister of Hydrabad and Jaipur, was born. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 9/14/1992 | S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died. |
| 6/10/1891 | Gandhiji called to the Bar. |
| 8/15/1997 | K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta. |
| 4/30/1998 | Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998. |
| 10/26/1969 | Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay. |
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