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Historical Event on 2/18/1975

Yogesh Shyam, soccer(Football) player, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1909Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur.
4/14/1995India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah.
12/1/1989Dr. Chenna Reddi (Congress-I) becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh.
2/23/1997176 people dead and 500 injured in a major fire at a religious congregation in Baripada, Orissa.
12/16/1999Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).
2/19/1974Bombay High Oil stock was found in the sea near Mumbai.
5/10/198559 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
10/9/1877Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa.
4/1/1962Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations.
4/1/1962While returning to his country, Timur Lung looted and destroyed Delhi and parts of North India including Hardwar, the Ganga pilgrimage town, and crossed Sindhu River.