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Historical Event on 1/18/1980

Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/29/1997Sonia Gandhi stepped into active politics.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
7/11/1953Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra).
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
6/18/1858Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi died while fighting with the British troops in the battlefield near Gwalior.
9/14/1967US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives.
8/4/1993Tarabai Bapat, daughter-in-law of revolutionary Senapati Bapat, died.
6/11/1998Chetak helicopter of IAF rescued a Border Security Force Jawan stuck waist deep in quicksand.
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
2/11/1979Shankarrao Narayanrao Mohite Patil `Sahakari Maharshi' passed away.