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Historical Event on 7/18/1987

Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/25/1965Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.
4/10/1982Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi.
5/15/2000Ghulam Hassan Bhat, Jammu and Kashmir Minister of State for Power, dies in a powerful IED explosion near Mandipore in Anantnag.
10/1/1997Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.
12/7/1999Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
3/2/1994Autonomous Hill Council for Leh set up.
9/29/1932Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born.