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Historical Event on 3/18/1948
Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 11/5/1995 | Narsimha Rao, PM, reaches Argentina for G-15 summit at Buenos Aires. |
| 7/26/1874 | Rajarshi Shahu Chhatrapati, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was born. |
| 5/30/1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
| 3/17/1995 | Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority. |
| 7/22/1956 | Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing. |
| 3/20/1993 | Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai. |
| 1/21/1945 | Shri Rashbehari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away at Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 60. |
| 9/2/1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India). |
| 11/2/1999 | The Delhi HC dismisses a plea against Sonia Gandhi seeking deletion of her name from the register of Indian citizenship. |
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