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Historical Event on 9/18/1995

Kaka Hathrasi, famous comedy poet, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
4/22/1942Galagnath (Vyanktesh Tirko Kulkarni), famous Kannad novelist, passed away.
3/27/1989Delhi beat Bengal by an innings and 210 to win the Ranji Trophy.
8/17/1944Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
7/16/1996Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
1/3/1912Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born.
11/19/1994Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi.