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Historical Event on 6/18/1956

New Hindu Succession Act was passed.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
2/6/1932Veena Das, revolutionary freedom fighter, shot Stenly Jackson, Governor of Calcutta at the convocation ceremony of B.A. degree, but Jackson was afraid and bend down, thus the aim was missed.
2/5/1931Krishna Film Co., Bombay produced a 7,659 feet long 'Krishnatone Talkie Programme No. 1, which was released quite before the release of 'Alam Ara,' first talkie film of India. The Krishnatone Programme was censored at C.C. No. 9906 on February 5 and the programme contained the following: (1) Arabic Song (2) Indian Orchestra No.1 (3) Indian Orchestra No.2 (4) Indian Orchestra No.3 (5) Jal Tarang Solo (6) Hindi Song No. 1 (7) Hindi Song No.2 (8) Hindi Song No. 3 (9) Bengali Song (10) Garba No. 1 (11) Garba No. 2 (12) Gujarati Comic Song (13) Hindi Chorus Song No. 1 (14) Hindi Chorus Song No. 2 (15) Dilruba Solo (16) Violin Solo (17) Goanese Song.
10/5/1868Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born.
1/18/2000S. S. Dawra is appointed new Director of the Enforcement Directorate.
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
10/30/1994India seeks Chinese support for Security Council membership.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.