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Historical Event on 1/18/1992

Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1905Major 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.
3/17/1910Smt. Anutai Wagh, great social worker, passed away.
11/22/1873Leopold CMS Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), was born.
11/24/1919Gandhiji presides over All-India Khilafat conference at Delhi.
6/6/1867Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
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.
9/21/1995Rumors that statues of the Hindu god Ganesh were drinking milk spread in New Delhi.
8/29/1959India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese.
7/7/1763Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.