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Historical Event on 1/18/1925

Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/13/1948Bhuvaneshwar became the capital of Orissa.
8/1/2000Lt. Gen. Padmanabhan to be new Army chief replacing Gen. V. P. Malik.
3/14/1995Chandragupta Chaudhary 'Comred ', senior leader of Bhartiya Communist Party, passed away.
11/7/1908N. R. Shede (Annasaheb), litterateur and editor, was born.
9/14/1992Three days of heavy rains cause flooding in northern India and Pakistan claiming 2,500 lives.
10/28/1992Karnataka government withdraws order allowing nine private organisations to start capitation fee for engineering colleges.
5/6/1922Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
6/25/1994Bombay's former underworld don Haji Masthan Mirza passed away.
2/20/1953India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.