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Historical Event on 2/18/1975

Yogesh Shyam, soccer(Football) player, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
9/19/2000India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US.
5/7/1908Sudhabala alias Ermaline was born in Bombay. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Hothal Padmini' (1925). Some of her films are Kicks of Kismet, Tained Virtue, Red Signal, Wise Fool, Hoor-E-Bagdad.
11/17/1857Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.
3/27/1942Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"".
12/27/1962India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir.
1/27/1904R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born.
1/19/1963Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, passed away.
10/18/1952Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wickets to win first Indo-Pak clash.
9/21/1996Apang (Legislative Party leader of Arunachal Congress) sworn in as Arunachal Pradesh chief minister again.