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Historical Event on 6/18/1992

Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/1859Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal.
12/27/1999PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.
1/25/1856Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
11/23/1937Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, eminent scientist, passed away due to heart attack. In 1901, he proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". He founded Bose Research Institute in Calcutta and authored world famous books ""Response in Living and Non-Living""(1902) and ""Nervous Merchanism of Pl
5/4/1854The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.
6/23/1935Ram Kolarkar, famous marathi author and editor, was born.
10/21/1997Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.