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Historical Event on 5/18/1872

Bertrand Russell, great philosopher, mathematician, author and Chairmain of the Indian League, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
6/25/1945Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders.
7/21/1993Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.
1/16/1938Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away.
4/29/1998The Reserve Bank reduces the bank rate by one point from 10 per cent in its monetary and credit policy for the first half of 1998- 99.
10/28/1996Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi.
1/11/1955Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.
4/12/1942Nehru pledges 'no surrender' to the Axis despite the rejection of Britain's plans at New Delhi.
3/12/1992Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC).
11/5/1990Janata Dal splits. The breakaway group claims support of 58 M.P.'s to elect Mr. Chandrashekhar as leader. V.P. Singh's government loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.