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Historical Event on 11/18/1727
Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1994 | SROSS-C2, Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P2), which carried remote sensing payload, was placed in orbit. It was the second developmental launch of PSLV. |
| 9/3/1953 | Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 12/12/1996 | India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water. |
| 7/31/1996 | Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97). |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 1/28/1895 | Shankarrao Dattatray Dev, veteran Congress leader, Gandhian and Sarvoday leader, was born. |
| 1/9/1916 | Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 9/14/1949 | Hindi declared the national language by the Constituent Assembly after a three-day debate. |
| 8/12/1928 | The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors. |
| 6/22/1959 | Iyengar Kasturi Srinivas, great politician and journalist, passed away. |
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