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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 |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
| 7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
| 4/22/1923 | Babani Sheshagiri Pai, social worker and journalist, was born at Ankola in Karnataka. |
| 7/10/1991 | C. G. Pandit, famous scientist and Padmabhushan awardee, died. |
| 8/1/1953 | All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International. |
| 5/28/1930 | Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing. |
| 2/17/1948 | Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was re-designated as the 5th Battalion the 8th Gorkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). |
| 3/15/1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 2/18/1997 | Dhaniram Baruah, controversial heart surgeon who claimed to have transplanted a pig's heart into one of his patients, released on bail in Guwahati. |
| 12/12/1965 | Vijayanta, first India-made millitary tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras. |
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