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Historical Event on 1/18/1977
Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/19/1994 | Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu. |
| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 11/25/1956 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, Railway Minister, resigns from the office or Railway Minitery, taking moral responsibility for Ayyapan rail disaster thus setting a rare example for politicians. |
| 12/27/1898 | Shamrao Desmukh, former Central Minister and Agriculture expert , was born. |
| 1/14/1946 | Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed. |
| 3/29/1999 | A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 5/11/1995 | In central Kashmir, militants burnt the Charar-e-Sherif shrine (the tomb of Sufi saint Sheikh Noorudin Noorani) built in 1460 by Zain-ul- Abidin. |
| 3/22/2000 | P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry. |
| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
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