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Historical Event on 7/18/1908

Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/8/1984P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
9/17/1997Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.
12/10/1990The communal disturbances between Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad claim more than 100 lives, and violence spreads to Aligarh and Kanpur also.
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
2/24/1994Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%.
12/5/1935Bipinchandra Joshi, chief of Indian Army general, was born.
11/5/1906Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name.
8/26/2000Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.
5/26/1948First ever trade agreement with Pakistan.
7/6/1998Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja.