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Historical Event on 8/18/1911

Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1978'Mahatma Phule Backward Class Development Corporation' (Mahatma Phule Magaswarg Vikas Mahamandal) was established.
2/13/1968Atal Bihari Vajpayee elected President of the All India Jan Sangha.
4/14/1990Veena Vidwan S. Balachander passed away.
1/21/1924Professor Madhu Dandavate, former Finance Minister, was born at Ahmednagar.
11/5/2000The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
1/24/1976Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries.
4/22/1992IAF in response to a recommendation by Secretary General, the Security Council adopted resolution No. 751 (1992) by which it established UNOSOM for handling situation which had deteriorated to an extent where death and destruction forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes and causing need for emergency humanitarian assistance.
12/23/1976Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor.
2/4/1628Shahjahan was enthroned and proclaimed emperor at Agra.