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Historical Event on 2/18/1918
Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born.
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| 1/3/1921 | First Indian Parliament meets. |
| 11/15/1932 | Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi |
| 1/17/1989 | Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole. |
| 11/20/1947 | Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi. |
| 6/5/1973 | Madhav Sadashiv Golvalkar, politician and RSS chief, passed away. |
| 1/23/1960 | Laxmi Narayan Garde, famous journalist related to ""Venkateshwar Samachar"", ""Bangawasi"", ""Bharat Mitra"" and ""Navjeevan"" newspapers, passed away. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
| 11/8/1831 | Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton was born. |
| 1/3/1978 | Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win. |
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