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Historical Event on 10/18/1995

President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
5/1/1966Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
6/28/1924Jamshedji Framji Madan ( J. F. Madan ), founder of Madan & Co. and Parsi Theatrical Company, passed away on June 28 at Calcutta.
2/16/1931Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time.
8/9/1970Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
11/11/1872Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", was b
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
11/25/1992Mamata Banerjee, Union Minister of State for Sports, resigns to fight Bengal CPM.
10/21/1990Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays.