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Historical Event on 7/18/1946
U.K. Parliament approves British Cabinet mission report on India but Churchill says that the mission went too far in offering India independence outside of the Commonwealth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1990 | 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland. NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps. |
| 1/9/1922 | Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
| 5/19/1975 | Farm truck packed with wedding party run over by a train, killing 66 in truck, at 40 miles south of Pune. |
| 5/26/1948 | First ever trade agreement with Pakistan. |
| 8/19/1992 | K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India. |
| 6/28/1921 | Sahityaratna P. V. Narsingh Rao, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 5/15/1958 | Gift Tax Act was introduced. |
| 10/1/1967 | Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established. |
| 9/23/1983 | Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope. |
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