This Day In History- June 18

1858 – Rani Of Jhansi,Laxmi bai embraced martyrdom as she went down fighting the British in a battlefield near Gwalior.

Rani of Jhansi

1992 – Congress nominates Dr.Shankar Dayal Sharma as its Presidential Candidate who went on to become India’s ninth President.

2000 – K M Beenamol bettered P T Usha’s long standing national record in the 400m race when she won one in the same category in an international meet at Kiev,Ukraine. She clocked 51.21 seconds, 0.40 secs less than Usha’s time in Canberra in 1985.

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