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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 |
| 3/1/1996 | Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case. |
| 7/6/1960 | The President promulgates the ESMA, 1960. |
| 1/24/1995 | 3,400 meter long tunnel at Barcem piercing through the Karmali Ghat in Canacona taluka on the Konkan railway route in Goa completed at an approximate cost of Rs. 50 million. |
| 3/14/1995 | Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected. |
| 3/8/1998 | Indian Airlines operates two international flights with all women crew. |
| 8/18/1700 | Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born. |
| 1/1/1909 | Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/22/1999 | Lok Sabha passes the 1999-2000 general budget through voice vote but without a debate and without amendments. |
| 9/15/1926 | Vande Mataram', a lengthy feature film produced by Vande Mataram Film Co, Bombay, was prohibited on September 15 by the Censor Board on the grounds that it was an underlying attack on the prestige of University Education in India. The film, however, was cleared on December 7 after deleting the objectionable scenes. |
| 1/31/1994 | Milind Desai, 12, the youngest editor in Gujarati journalism, died of leukemia. |
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