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Historical Event on 11/18/1997

Puttaveeramma of Ishwatha Ashrama Vidyaranyapuram, Vishveshwara Nagar, Mysore, conferred with the 'Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award 1997' for lifelong exemplary service to poor destitute women, in particular deaf and dumb girl children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1973The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
8/1/1952Nationalised Airways at Safdarjung, New Delhi inaugurated by Nehru.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.
11/21/1921Prince of Wales visited India and Congress observed all India strike.
7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
2/12/1997Standard Bank tri-series final between India and South Africa abandoned due to rain.
9/22/1952Bapiraju Adiv, famous Telgu novelist, poet and author, died.
1/5/1988India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.