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Historical Event on 7/18/1857
The Calcutta, Mumbai and Madras Universities were established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1994 | Vaikom Mohammed Basheer, 86, Malayalam literary genius, died in Beypore in Kerala. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 3/22/1957 | National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian. |
| 4/6/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi picked up a lump of natural salt for breaking the 'Salt Law'. He was arrested at Dandi. This movement gathered strength and within a month about one lakh people were sent to jail. This violation of Salt Law was the second great step in India's Freedom Movement. |
| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 4/18/1993 | BJP issues white paper on Ayodhya. |
| 1/18/1925 | Gajanan Johari, famous Marathi writer, was born. |
| 2/26/1996 | Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM. |
| 12/25/1964 | Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India. |
| 5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
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