On This Day
18 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1858 Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare, was born. He advocated widow remarriage and he himself married a widow. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education. He founded the first women's university in India - SNDT Women's University.
- 1859 Tantia Tope, general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders, was hanged to death. Despite lacking formal military training, Tantia Tope is widely considered as the best and most effective rebel general.
- 1951 Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan Movement, a voluntary land reform movement, at Pochampally village in Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh.
- 1991 As per the norms of National Literacy Mission, which states that a literacy rate above 90% shall be treated as complete literacy, Kerala was declared the first fully literate state in the country.
- 2011 India's Supreme Court banned travelling circuses from employing children and ordered the government to conduct raids on all performing companies to rescue minors.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1955 Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time, died. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.
- 1980 Zimbabwe achieved independence from the United Kingdom.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Heritage Day or The International Day for Monuments and Sites, is an international observance around the world with different types of activities, including visits to monuments and heritage sites, conferences, round tables and newspaper articles.
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