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Historical Event on 5/18/1946

Gandhiji discusses Plan with Cabinet Mission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1990L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
12/22/1843Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, accepted Brahmo religion at the hands of Ramchandra Vidyabagish.
3/22/1915Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born.
5/20/1972Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
1/31/1986Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away.
7/11/1998Indians bag a silver and a bronze at the International Physics Olympiad in Reykjavik.
11/19/1838Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
4/18/1956India, Indonesia, Burma, Ceylon and Pakistan meet in New Delhi to reaffirm their faith in Bandung Principles.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.