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Historical Event on 5/18/1999

R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/2/1871Kashinath Raghunath Mitra, famous editor of monthly magzine 'Manoranjan', was born.
9/8/1962Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration.
4/28/1952The war between Japan and India ended.
8/10/1963The Kamraj Plan.
10/16/1959National Council of Women's Education was inaugurated in New Delhi.
2/5/1992Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar.
3/5/1948C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
9/7/1887Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh.
12/14/1999India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
4/11/1856Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.