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Historical Event on 6/18/1997
E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1951 | Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched. |
| 12/24/1891 | Chandra Singh Garhwali, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Masson, Patti Chauthan, Tehsil Thalisain, District Garhwal. |
| 4/27/1907 | Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers. |
| 11/7/1858 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful revolutionary and journalist, was born in a place called Silhat (now in Bangladesh). He was amoung the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started as newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democra |
| 2/4/1944 | Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 3/22/1906 | ShahJahan, Mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 8/23/1947 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. |
| 12/24/1999 | Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad. |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
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