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Historical Event on 2/18/1992

47 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/13/1780Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was born.
12/27/1998Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen unveils his plans to set up a charity trust with the award money for development of education and health in India and Bangladesh.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
4/22/1942The Telecommunication Training Centre was established at Jabalpur.
8/13/1936Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay.
10/15/1902Bhaurao Krishnarao Gaekwad, great leader, was born. He was a colleagu of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar.
1/26/2000Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu.
1/26/2000Vasco De Gama, Portuguese navigator who discovered India, died in Cochin.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.