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Historical Event on 2/18/1992
Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1923 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
| 3/24/1977 | Morarji Desai elected leader of Janata Party and sworn in as the Prime Minister of India at New Delhi. Later he formed his cabinet. He was in the office of Prime Minister till July 28, 1979. This was first non-Congress Government in India. |
| 1/21/1999 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, suspends his party's protest against the coming India-Pakistan cricket matches after an urgent meeting with the Union Home Minister in Mumbai. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 1/2/1991 | Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport. |
| 10/29/1992 | Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem. |
| 7/31/1880 | Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, 'Prem Chand', great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP. |
| 1/18/1971 | Barrister Nath Pai, freedom fighter and member of parliament, passed away at the age of 49. |
| 4/27/1994 | Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
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