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Historical Event on 5/18/1999
R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1958 | Dr.Bhagwandas, famous Congress leader and theosophist, died. |
| 11/30/1915 | Venkat Apparao Gurjad, famous Telgu poet, died. |
| 5/29/1953 | Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. |
| 8/23/1994 | Arati Gupta (Saha) succumbed to an incurable jaundice. (29-9-99). |
| 5/19/1990 | S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD. |
| 2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
| 9/3/1905 | Kamlapati Tripathi, leader of Indian National Congess, was born. |
| 9/3/1905 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 3/26/1996 | The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it. |
| 7/6/1939 | Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore. |
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