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Historical Event on 02/18/1486
Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya Devji alias Gaurang, Vishwambhar Mishra, Vaishnav Saint of Bengal, was born at Nabadwip in Bengal.
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| 8/29/1947 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar became the President of Constitution Council. |
| 6/6/1916 | Lord Kitchener, the premier soldier of the British Empire, passed away tragically last night as the ''Hampshire'', the cruiser on which he was traveling to Russia to boost sagging morale, struck a mine or was torpedoed off the Orkney Islands and sank, drowning all aboard. Life in London came to a standstill, while Paris and Washington were shocked by the news. In the last half-century, through tireless energy and devotion to imperial duty, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 66, commanded in Palestine, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, and India. Two years ago, he had become the War Secretary. |
| 4/1/1989 | UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia. |
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| 11/7/1995 | Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 8/17/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi announces Punjab state elections in India. |
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