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18 January

🇮🇳 In India

1930 Rabindranath Tagore visited the Sabarmati Ashram.

1938 The last batch of the political prisoners sailed back to the mainland from the Cellular Jail.

1948 Gandhi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslim-Hindu riots. He was assassinated 11 days later.

1955 Saadat Hasan Manto, Urdu writer, playwright and author, born in Ludhiana and active in British India and later, after the Partition of India, in Pakistan, died in Lahore.

1996 N T Rama Rao, actor, producer, director, film editor, and politician who served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years, died.

2003 Harivansh Rai Bachchan, poet and writer of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature, died.

🌎 Elsewhere

1778 Captain James Cook became the first European to visit the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).

1779 English physician, philologist, and thesaurus compiler Peter Mark Roget was born in London.

1882 English humorist A A Milne—who originated the immensely popular stories of Christopher Robin and his toy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh—was born.

1892 Oliver Hardy, American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1927 to 1955, was born.

1936 Rudyard Kipling, English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, died in London. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King".

1995 The domain of Yahoo.com was created.

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