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Historical Event on 1/18/1959

Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/21/1999Madhavrao Scindia becomes the Deputy Leader of Congress (I) in the Lok Sabha.
8/19/1993Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
9/24/1994At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.
9/4/1825Dadabhai Naoroji, first Indian in British parliament and merchant, was born at Navsari, Gujarat. He coined the word 'Swaraj'.
10/29/1999L .K. Advani, Home Minister, says the Centre is in touch with cyclone-hit states.
9/27/1873Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, nationalist leader, politician and President of the Central Assembly, was born at Karmasad, Gujarat.
9/19/1996Suresh Mehta ministry is dismissed, President's rule imposed.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
10/3/1907Mansukhlal Maganlal Zaveri, famous Gujrati poet and critic, was born.