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Historical Event on 5/18/1772
Janoji Bhosle, warrior in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/18/1772 | While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River. |
| 4/6/1606 | Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra. |
| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 7/3/1897 | Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat). |
| 9/29/1942 | The British police shot Matangini Hazra, a 72-year old woman of Tamluk town in Midnapur district, when she was leading the flag at Tamluk in August movement procession. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 1/4/1892 | J. C. Kumarappa, a Gandhian by thought, was born. |
| 2/12/1996 | President S.D. Sharma in Kerala. |
| 5/2/1907 | Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
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