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Historical Event on 9/18/1803

Puri was captured by Britishers from the Marathas without any struggle.

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7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
2/18/1823Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born.
6/23/1810Duncan Dock of Bombay was completed.
1/6/1976Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker.
9/21/2000J.W. Singh, suspended Mumbai High Court judge facing charges of extortion in nexus with the underworld, dismissed from judicial service.
6/19/2000Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.
11/2/1774Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India.
7/3/1908Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
9/15/1947Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer.