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Historical Event on 8/18/1956
Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/16/1928 | C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
| 6/10/1900 | Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 1/5/1869 | Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni, famous Kannad novelist 'Galagnath', was born. |
| 2/8/1971 | Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died. |
| 11/30/1986 | Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab. |
| 6/9/1909 | Baburao Arnalkar, famous detective story writer, was born. |
| 6/12/2000 | The Government appointed S. K. Mahajan of Delhi High Court as the chairman of the one-man tribunal to adjudicate whether or not there was sufficient cause for declaring LTTE as unlawful. |
| 12/25/1997 | India-Sri Lanka one-day cricket match at Indore abandoned after three overs owing to a bad state of the pitch, which was a rare occurance. |
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