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Historical Event on 8/18/1956
Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/27/1925 | Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 10/16/1976 | Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting. |
| 4/11/1997 | 10-month-old Deve Gowde govt. at the centre voted out of power. 292 voting against the motion of confidence in Lok Sabha, 158 for it, 6 abstaining. |
| 7/25/1976 | Sriram Singh at Montreal sets record for 800m in 1.45.77. |
| 1/9/1995 | T.N. Seshan, chief election commissioner, asks Centre to put off annual budget in lieu of State assembly elections. |
| 12/5/2000 | Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 10/31/1920 | Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay. |
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