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Historical Event on 8/18/1900
Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1900 | Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi. |
| 5/19/1971 | Indian Navy's first submarine station started at 'Veer Bahu' in Visakhapatanam. |
| 3/6/1928 | Nilkanth Ramanbhai Mahipatrao, famous Gujrati litterateur, critic, dramatist and social reformer, died. |
| 10/25/1999 | Fixed term for Lok Sabha, Assemblies is under study, said President K R Narayanan in his address to a joint session of Parliament. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
| 12/22/1966 | U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India. |
| 4/12/1752 | Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar. |
| 5/1/1958 | Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer. |
| 1/14/1882 | Maharshi Raghunath Dhondo Karve, father of Family Planning and Sex Education, was born. |
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