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Historical Event on 3/18/1924

Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1793Lord Cornwallis promulgated permanent settlement in Bengal and Bihar to fix the revenue amounts once and for all to be paid by the zamindars every year.
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.
9/18/1917Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
8/2/1958Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 13 Tests between 1987-89), was born in Hydrabad.
3/18/1922Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause.
3/25/19911991 census report released; India has 844 million people.
8/5/1999The Global Peace March demands demilitarisation of the entire planet.
5/9/1907Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal.
11/1/1992The Superfast Rajdhani Express train linking Bangalore and Nizamuddin (2,452 km) flagged off.
4/3/1984Sikh terrorists kill a member of Parliament in his home in New Delhi.