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Historical Event on 4/18/1898
Damodar Hari Chapekar, India's first revolutionary, was hanged in the Yervada Central Jail. He was punished for killing the Rand and Ayrest British Officials.
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| 6/24/1961 | Indian Manufactured Supersonic fighter HF24 flew took to air for the first time. |
| 8/12/1973 | Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu, died. |
| 9/26/1919 | Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held. |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 9/7/1905 | Raghunath Govind Sardesai, journalist and Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 3/8/1941 | Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away. |
| 6/28/1995 | Madhya Pradesh in central India is designated a `tiger state' to protect the animal from poachers and settlers. |
| 11/20/1907 | Railroad workers strike in India. |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
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