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Historical Event on 1/18/1950
Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/23/1937 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl |
| 7/25/1955 | Indian Government declared in Lok Sabha that Portuguese's were asked to close their offices in New Delhi. |
| 6/18/1956 | New Hindu Succession Act was passed. |
| 10/23/1959 | Chinese military confrontation with India in Aksai Chin killed 17 Indian soldiers in a clash on the Kashmir border. |
| 9/1/1915 | Rajindersingh Bedi, Urdu story writer and Hindi film story writer, was born. |
| 12/11/1998 | Kavi Pradeep (84), poet who received 1998 Dadasaheb Phalke award, dies in Mumbai. He was a patriotic song writer and wrote several immortal Hindi film songs. |
| 10/24/1789 | Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 1/26/1957 | Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 7/29/1884 | Tyagraj Paramshiv Kailasam, leading playwright of Kannad language, was born. |
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