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Historical Event on 10/18/1901

Mahatma Gandhi sails for India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/17/1990Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar, India killing 80 people.
9/8/1962Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration.
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
8/6/1998The Maharashtra Government rejects the Srikrishna Commission findings on the 1992-93 communal riots and the serial blasts in Mumbai, but agrees to act on the panel's suggestions to refurbish the police force.
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.
9/22/1991Durga Khote, film actress and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 86 years.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
6/26/1982First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay).
1/24/2000Supreme Court imposes, with immediate effect, a ban on industries in Delhi and Haryana from discharging untreated industrial effluents into the Yamuna.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.