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Historical Event on 1/18/1998
Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1856 | Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians. |
| 7/12/1996 | Ram Vilas Paswan presents railway budget 96-97 with 10\% hike in freight and upper class journeys. |
| 9/10/1912 | B. D. Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born. |
| 8/1/1988 | Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1991. |
| 11/1/1956 | Indian Government re-organizes the states according to linguistic principles and inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. The states declared were Madhya Pradesh, Punjab by merging Patiala & PEPSU, Mumbai was divided in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Union Territories namely Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were approved. |
| 12/6/1931 | Bengal Congress to boycott British goods. |
| 3/21/1979 | Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi. |
| 4/3/1994 | Bhanu Prakash Singh,Goa Governor, resigns. |
| 12/12/2000 | A special court for CBI cases rejects Hinduja brothers' plea and summons them to appear on January 19, 2001. |
| 3/30/1989 | Waman Ganpat Behre `Sobat', editor of weekly, passed away. |
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