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Historical Event on 1/18/1942

Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/11/1980Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away.
12/24/1984Eigth General Elections of India began .
11/19/19971996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
11/16/1990Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent).
4/3/1966First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
6/3/1818Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends.
11/6/2000Richa Mishra creates a national record in the women's 400m individual medley in 5.15.28sec in the 55th Senior National Aquatic championship in Calcutta.
6/24/1991Jayalalitha ministry sworn in in Tamil Nadu.
2/14/2000The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.