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Historical Event on 9/18/1965
Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1993 | India regains ""Rubber"" after 6 years by beating England by an innings and 70 runs at Madras. |
| 9/13/1984 | Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement. |
| 9/15/1926 | Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes. |
| 1/27/1924 | Sabu [Dastagir], actor (Elephant Boy, Drum), was born in India. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 6/29/1857 | Battle at Chinhat (Indies rebel under Barkat Ahmed beat British). |
| 5/7/1912 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati novelist and story writer, was born. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 10/10/1978 | Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'. |
| 10/6/1997 | Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title. |
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