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Historical Event on 1/18/1982
Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/24/1996 | Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party. |
12/13/2000 | Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief. |
10/25/1999 | Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament. |
4/6/1998 | The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri. |
6/29/1757 | Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad. |
5/19/1969 | Cyclone hit Andhra Pradesh claiming 608 lives and rendering 20,000 homeless. |
1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
1/2/1878 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and first president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, was born at Perunna village, Kerala State. |
9/30/1999 | Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature. |
4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
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