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Historical Event on 10/18/1983
Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
| 10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
| 1/5/1994 | Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada). |
| 4/13/1963 | Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away. |
| 11/13/1999 | Punjab Police men, Railways women emerged Federation Cup basketball champions in Jalandhar. |
| 5/22/1993 | Congress (I) suffers reverses in the by-elections. |
| 10/3/1997 | Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
| 7/21/1930 | Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born. |
| 12/11/1988 | Dr. Nagendra Singh, 74, President of the International Court of Justice, passed away in Hague. |
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