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February 18, 1946

On February 18, 1946, sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors Hayley Mills, Tim Curry, Steven L. Bennett would arrive in the same year.

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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.

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On February 18, 1946

  1. 1946 Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors

    (1612–1947) military force

    The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of the erstwhile British Raj and its successor Dominion of India. Along with the presidency armies, later the Indian Army, and from 1932 the Royal Indian Air Force, it was one of the Armed Forces of British India.

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Hayley Mills 1946– English actress
Tim Curry 1946– English actor and singer
Steven L. Bennett 1946– American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1972)
Paul Davies 1946– English physicist and author
Louise Harel 1946– Canadian lawyer and politician
Archy Kirkwood 1946– Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician

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