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Historical Event on 2/18/1946

Cabinet Mission in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1953Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away.
4/8/1953Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district.
3/13/1997Sister Nirmala Joshi, 63, is chosen to succeed Mother Teresa as the Superior-General of Missionaries of Charity.
3/14/1995Keshubai Patel (Gujarat), J.B. Patnaik (Orissa) and Manohar Joshi, the 12th (Maharashtra) CMs, elected.
1/9/1854Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and translator, was born.
6/17/1991Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950).
8/13/1943Chintamanrao Deshmukh was first Indian to be appointed Governor of Reserve Bank.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
6/11/1995PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.
10/21/1997Himachal Pradesh Assembly goes global with inauguration of its website on the Internet.