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Historical Event on 7/18/1908
Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/12/1897 | Major Gegeral Himmat Singh, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and Duputy Defence Minister, was born. |
| 2/8/1936 | Manohar Shankar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies in 1958-59), was born in Baroda. |
| 2/22/1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours. |
| 9/15/1916 | Margaret Lockwood, film actress of 'Lady Vanishes' fame, was born in Karachi, India. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 3/31/1994 | Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India. |
| 1/24/1966 | Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government. |
| 9/18/1972 | Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%. |
| 7/29/1994 | Indian army kills 27 Muslem militants. |
| 9/29/1964 | 1,000 people were killed as a reservoir burst. |
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