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Historical Event on 4/16/1918

Lalita Pawar, famous actress of Indian film industry, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/16/1918Rana Sangram Singh, King of Mewad, attacked on Mughal Emperor Babur near Kanwa at Agra.
7/8/1985Sri Lanka Peace talks open in Thimphu.
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
3/1/1997Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.
6/5/1966Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent.
2/2/1949Press Trust of India' was established.
2/18/1836Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa(1836-86), was born early morning in Kamarpukur village in Hooghly district, West Bengal. His real name was Gadadhar Chatterji. He was God-intoxicated Bengali Shakta saint, Guru of Swami Vivekananda. He exemplified the bhakti dimension of 'Shakta Universalism'.
12/11/1976Aliyawar Jung, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
2/7/1922Britain threatens crackdown in India to combat Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign.