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Historical Event on 1/18/1985

Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
6/22/1940Netaji Subhashchandra Bose established the 'Forward Block' after differences with Congress leaders.
7/22/1956Quake shatters town of Anjar; claiming 117 lives, 800 people were missing.
9/2/1992Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away.
1/2/1953Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
4/7/1997Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan finalise preparations for a new trade bloc called 'Growth Quadrangle'.
11/20/1999P.G.S. Mony, Indian scientist, is honoured by the French Government.
12/21/1990Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
2/18/1998C. Subramaniam, former Maharashtra Governor, is awarded Bharat Ratna.