Today Importance - 18th February
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18-Feb-1266
Nasiruddin Muhammad Shah passed away first. His son-in-law Ghiyasuddin Balban succeeded Nasiruddin Mahmud in Delhi.
18-Feb-1486
Vaishnava saint Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya Devji alias Gauranga, Vishwambhar Mishra of Bengal was born in Nabadwip, Bengal.
18-Feb-1665
The Portuguese handed over the island of Mumbai to England.
18-Feb-1823
Gopal Hari Deshmukh, philanthropist, is born.
18-Feb-1836
Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-86), was born early in the morning in the village of Kamarpukur in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. His original name was Gadadhar Chattopadhyay. He was the teacher of Swami Vivekananda, a Bengali Shakta saint who was intoxicated with God. He exemplified the devotional dimension of 'strong universalism'.
18-Feb-1871
Great patriot and veteran parliamentarian Vithalbhai Javerbhai Patel was born.
18-Feb-1871
Vishnubuwa Brahmachari, the first missionary of Hinduism, died.
18-Feb-1895
Nationalist, patriot, social reformer and Congress leader Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was born in Masauli village of Barabanki district.
18-Feb-1899
Leader, freedom fighter and social reformer Jayanarayan Vyas was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He played a leading role in uniting the various states of Rajputana to form Akhanda Rajasthan. He was the principal Boss Clergyman of Rajasthan from 1951 to 1954.
18-Feb-1905
The Indian Home Rule Society was established by Shyamji Krishna Varma in London.
18-Feb-1905
Shyamji Krishna Varma founded India House in London to help Indians going to England. He also founded the Indian Home Rule Society, which helped him raise his voice against British rule in India.
18-Feb-1906
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar is born.
18-Feb-1911
The world's first official air mail flight service started on February 18, 1911 from Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad) with 6,500 letters and post cards.
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DAY OF THE YEAR,
National Drink Wine Day ,
Thumb Appreciation Day , national Battery Day , National Eat Ice Cream For Breakfast Day, National Crab Stuffed Flounder Day, Pluto Day, Cow Milked While Flying In an Airplane Day ,
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WEEK OF THE YEAR,
Real Bread Week ,
Cancer Preention Action Week , Love Teaching Week National Entrepreneurship Week , T
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MONTH OF THE YEAR,
International Vegan Cuisine Month ,
American Hearth Month , National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month , National Snack Food Month , Spay /Neater Awareness Month , National African American Read in , National Children's Dental Hearth Month , Human Relations Month , Feline Fixby Five Month , National Macadamia Nut Month , Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month , Berry Fresh Month , National Therapeutic Recreation Month, Marijuana Awareness Month , National Goat Yoga Month , Financial Aid Awareness Month , Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month , National Mend a Broken Heart Month , National Wedding Month , Canned Food Month ,North American Inclusion Month National Black History Month , Raynaud's Awareness Month , Renaissance of the Hearth Month
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18-Feb-1911
Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henri Paquet made the first official air mail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction.
18-Feb-1911
Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who also wrote novels on history and war, was born.
18-Feb-1918
Modern Kannada poet Gopal Krishna Adiga was born.
18-Feb-1925
Birth of famous Hindi writer Krishna Sowati.
18-Feb-1931
Swaraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (capro), is born.
18-Feb-1941
There was a minor mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy, now known as the Indian Navy.
18-Feb-1944
Bharatiya Jnanpith Institute was established.
18-Feb-1945
Kali Yuga is over.
18-Feb-1946
Cabinet Mission to India.
18-Feb-1974
US Ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan presented a check for $2,046,700,000.
18-Feb-1975
Yogesh Shyam, football (soccer) player, is born.
18-Feb-1975
Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests, 4 wickets for India), died.
18-Feb-1983
Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese in Sri Lanka led to a Tamil rebellion by the Tigers, demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Consequences of a long civil war.
18-Feb-1988
Jan Nayak Karpuri Tagore, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and National President of Samilit Samajtantrik Dal has passed away.
18-Feb-1992
47 people died in Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede in Tamil Nadu
18-Feb-1992
Sikh extremists killed 17 people in Punjab.
18-Feb-1992
Late journalist Basantrao Karnik.
18-Feb-1993
The Congress(I) won an absolute majority in Nagaland and emerged as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
18-Feb-1993
Famous bandit queen Phoolan Devi was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many lower-caste Indians, she was born into a fisherman-sailor caste at the bottom of India's strict social hierarchy and became an outlaw after being gang-raped. He leads his village band to rob and kill upper caste Thakurs to avenge the murder of his lover and acquires the image of Robin Hood. "I will work for the development of women and the poor," said the devastated rebel.
18-Feb-1994
India has rejected OIC's offer of mediation on Kashmir
18-Feb-1996
Kenya's first full One Day International cricket match vs India in the Cricket World Cup. Tendulkar scored 127* as India won against Kenya.
18-Feb-1997
Dhaniram Barua, the controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, has been released on bail in Guwahati.
18-Feb-1998
Former Maharashtra Governor C Subramaniam has been awarded the Bharat Ratna.
18-Feb-1999
Business Priest Ramakrishna Hegde sent off the India Brand Value Asset (IBEF).
18-Feb-2000
Pandit Ravi Shankar has been selected for this year's Subbarami Reddy Kalapeetham Foundation Award, a lifetime award, for his contribution to Indian music Achievement Award.
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