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Historical Event on 8/18/1920
Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.
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| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 12/22/1853 | Saradamoni Devi was born in Jairambati of Hooghly district. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 9/18/2000 | President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee. |
| 6/12/1970 | Gopinath Kaviraj, Padmavibhushan awardee and critic, passed away. |
| 6/12/1970 | Origin of Fasli Era (India). |
| 3/31/1867 | Prarthana Samaj was established by Ranade, Bhandarkar and others at Mumbai in 1864. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 1/10/1616 | Sir Thomas Row, first English Ambassador, submitted his identification to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer. |
| 7/20/1898 | Krishna Kanta Handique, great linguist, educationist, principal of J.B. College and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Jorhat. |
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