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Historical Event on 1/18/1980
Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/15/1991 | Jagannathrao Joshi, veteran leader of Janata Party `Karnataka Kesri', died. |
5/29/1972 | Prithviraj Kapoor, famous film actor, passed away. |
7/28/1989 | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law. |
2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
11/30/1982 | World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi. |
11/9/1897 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's ""National Herald"", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Edit |
7/30/1987 | India says it will revive the 'Agni' IRBM programe. |
6/30/1914 | Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa. |
12/12/1958 | Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur. |
2/20/1847 | Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established. |
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