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Historical Event on 7/18/1634

Joannes Camphuys, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1684-91), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1954Indian Government decided to integrate Chandranagar in West Bengal which was under the rule of the French.
8/29/1947A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab.
11/13/1908Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born.
10/24/2000Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi.
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
8/27/1990The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.
11/11/1980The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.'
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
12/26/1831Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away.