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Historical Event on 2/18/1665
The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/5/1944 | Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
| 6/24/1991 | Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission. |
| 11/14/1967 | Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born. |
| 8/29/1905 | Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day. |
| 6/18/1997 | E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican. |
| 4/26/1995 | Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
| 1/31/1985 | Under the 52nd Constitutional Amendment, Anti-Defector Bill was passed unanimously in Lok Sabha. This avoided the Representatives of People to switch over political parties. |
| 10/2/1982 | Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died. |
| 9/22/1931 | Gandhi meets Charlie Chaplin in London. |
| 7/20/1991 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, former Maharaja of Travancore, passed away at the age of 78 years after a brief illness. His term as the descendant of the Chera dynasty saw many progressive reforms in the field of legislation, education and many more. He was hailed as ""Ashoka the second"", and Gandhiji parised him as a ""Historical wonder"". |
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