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Historical Event on 6/18/1658
Aurangzeb managed to capture the Agra Fort and later arrested his father Emperor Shahjahan.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1925 | Govind Talwalkar, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 5/2/1981 | Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away. |
| 12/26/1989 | India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean. |
| 3/25/1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 8/1/1994 | The Railway passenger insurance scheme comes into force. |
| 1/4/1964 | The First Diesel Engine came out of the Varanasi Diesel Engine Carshed. |
| 5/1/1981 | Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State. |
| 8/15/1942 | Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace. |
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