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Historical Event on 8/18/1958
Dr.Bhagwandas, famous Congress leader and theosophist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1965 | Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India. |
| 10/31/1997 | Rushmi Chakravarthy makes it a double in the National hardcourt tennis in Mumbai. |
| 10/31/1895 | Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, cricketer (India's 1st Test capt), born at Nagpur. |
| 1/10/1975 | India accords recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| 7/4/1989 | Union Deputy Ministers were promoted to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 6/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, famous litterateur, passed away. |
| 9/21/1999 | Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur. |
| 2/6/1992 | The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry. |
| 7/28/1921 | Congress decided to boycott the visit of Prince of Wales in India. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
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