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Historical Event on 2/18/1665
The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/6/1925 | Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
10/3/1950 | India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York. |
11/8/1893 | Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore. |
10/9/1945 | British troops occupy Andaman in Gulf of Bengal. |
7/27/1972 | Charu Majumdar, father of Naxalite Movement and the founder President of C.O.I.(M-L), died in prison. |
1/20/1996 | The Indian Army conducted United Nation Peacekeeping Keeping Operations in New Delhi from 20 to 26 Jan 1996, wherein delegates from UN HQ and 17 foreign countries of the Asia-Pacific region participated. The Under Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, was the chief guest. |
4/5/1993 | G. V. Iyer's Sanskrit film 'Bhagavad Geeta was adjudged the best film at the National Film Awards. |
9/16/1954 | The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent. |
10/30/1999 | The Central Ministerial team led by Mr. Advani is prevented from making an on-the-spot assessment of the havoc wrecked by the super cyclone. |
7/16/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973. |
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