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Historical Event on 1/18/1950

Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away.

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6/3/1844Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born.
7/24/1993Vajpayee elected leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha.
8/14/1954'State Carrom Association' was established in Mumbai.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
2/6/1992The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry.
2/1/1922Gandhiji gives notice to the Viceroy Lord Reading during Bardoli movement to inform him that he was intensifying his action and non-cooperation was to be escalated to Civil Disobedience.
9/16/1931Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
8/4/1997Maharashtra govt. decides against banning Arun Shourie's book ''Worshipping False Gods'' on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
8/10/1991Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena.
7/6/1942Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter and editor of ""Janma Bhoomi"", died due to non-medical facility and mal-nutrition in Jail. She has also written ""Karagaar Ke Anubhav"" in 1930. She was arrested for Satyagrah and forcefully closing of Foreign Goods.