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Historical Event on 10/18/1712

Jeremias Van Riemsdijk, Governor General of Dutch Indies (1775-77), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1877Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers.
11/14/1997Nisha Millet sets national mark in the 100m freestyle in the national aquatics.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
1/31/1976Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
9/27/2000Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.
4/1/1878Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.
8/1/1997Nitin Mongia wins Laser standard in sailing championship in Hyderabad.
4/28/1986Malayalam film `Chidambaram' directed by G. Aravindan wins best feature film award and Shyam Benegal bags the Best Director award for the Hindi film 'Trikal'.
1/14/1905Durga Khote, Marathi stage artist and actress, was born.