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Historical Event on 1/18/1947

Kundanlal Saigal, famous film star and unique singer, died at Jalandhar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1995Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court.
12/27/1962India and Pakistan begin negotiations over Kashmir.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
11/16/1860First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.
9/6/1995New broad gauge train ""Palace on Wheels"" started between Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
8/25/1969Vivek Upendra Krishna Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90), was born in Delhi.
8/6/1993Medha Patkar suspends anti-Narmada stir and drops her ''jal samarpan'' threat.
4/8/1919Gandhiji arrested on way to Delhi for refusal to comply with order not to enter Punjab; escorted back to Bombay; outbreaks of violence in several towns.