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Historical Event on 11/18/1937
Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/27/1930 | Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March. |
| 9/7/1996 | First phase of J & K Assembly elections. |
| 12/23/1912 | Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast. |
| 6/16/1934 | M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 6/3/1865 | George V, King of England (1910-36), was born. |
| 2/12/1928 | Bardoli Satyagrah (Gujarat) was led by Vallabhbhai Patel against the Bombay government's decision to hike the revenue on cotton by 22 percent while its prices declined Internationally. Ultimately the govenment quashed the hike. |
| 7/13/1964 | Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler), was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/27/1987 | UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding. |
| 12/26/1978 | Indira Gandhi released after week in jail for refusing to testify on corruption. |
| 7/29/1988 | Syed Modi, 28-year national badminton champion, was shot dead at K. D. Singh Stadium in Lucknow. |
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