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Historical Event on 11/18/1988
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 7/10/1964 | Bangalore University was established in Karnataka. |
| 8/25/1888 | Allama Mashriqi, Muslim leader, was born. |
| 4/1/1994 | Five ministers resign from the Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
| 5/3/1718 | Baba Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, great freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Ahlu village, Lahore. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/25/1931 | 50 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 8/22/1993 | Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56. |
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