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Historical Event on 7/18/1993

Rail, road traffic disrupted.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
2/11/1997A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments.
5/8/1994Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away.
11/22/1971Indian and Pakistan governments protested violations of national airspace along the western border, but aerial conflict between the respective air arms began, preceding full-scale warfare between India and Pakistan by 12 days.
6/22/1975National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced.
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
9/24/1992Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT.
9/28/1954137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.