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Historical Event on 1/18/1982

Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1962S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.
2/28/1997Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
3/5/1997Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka.
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
2/18/1992Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.
12/4/1977Ajit Agarkar, promising Indian ODI all-rounder, was born.
1/12/1996Supreme Court holds that horse racing is not gambling, but a game of skill.