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Historical Event on 4/18/1998
Dr. A. R. Kidwai is appointed Governor of West Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1996 | Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court. |
| 3/18/1916 | Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay. |
| 10/26/1886 | Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born. |
| 2/28/1937 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit. |
| 11/14/1964 | Nehru Commemorative coin is released. |
| 1/25/1999 | Dr. R. Chidambaram, nuclear scientist, among the 14 distinguished personalities chosen for Padma Vibhushan. Sachin Tendulkar and Ruskin Bond get Padma Shri. |
| 9/3/1931 | Dr. Chandreshwarprasad Rachamohan Thakur was born in Dubaha, Distt. Muzaffarpur (Bihar). |
| 1/8/1992 | Luggage rate of railway passengers hiked by 30 per cent. |
| 1/3/1996 | Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi. |
| 5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
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