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Historical Event on 7/18/1695
Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1997 | RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks. |
| 4/23/1930 | Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
| 5/19/1982 | Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. |
| 10/1/1854 | Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26. |
| 5/11/1998 | Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 9/1/1896 | Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/18/1942 | Gandhiji restarts 'Harijan' and allied weeklies. |
| 10/16/1968 | Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene. |
| 12/26/1914 | Dr. Shushila Nair, social reformer, was born in village Kunjah, district Gunjra, Punjab (now Pakistan). She dedicated her life to serve Gandhiji and Gandhi Ashram and also performed the duties of Indian citizen by taking active participation in freedom movement. |
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