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Historical Event on 6/18/1926
Bhishma Singh Chauhan, great author, was born at Naglajula (U.P).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/20/1988 | Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan. |
| 5/20/1991 | General Election (10th) of India begins. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 4/8/1831 | Ram Mohan Roy landed in England. |
| 5/1/1926 | Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people. |
| 5/1/1926 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
| 12/4/1993 | Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila. |
| 7/1/1909 | Madanlal Dhingra, revolutionary, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, a prominent Anglo-Indian, at the Imperial Institute in London. |
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