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Historical Event on 6/18/1974
Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
4/28/1943 | Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar. |
5/18/1974 | First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb. |
10/5/1993 | Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel. |
12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
12/23/1900 | Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born. |
6/24/1901 | John Thottam (Sir Marry Benigna C.D.) Marry, great poetess and teacher, was born in Elangi village at Kerala. |
10/10/1964 | Olympics opened at Tokyo |
2/9/1942 | Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India. |
2/13/1994 | Troops moved to Uttar Pradesh to quell caste violence. |
11/3/1986 | Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died. |
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