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Historical Event on 2/18/1911

World' s first official airmail flight service with 6,500 letters and post cards was made between Bamrauli to Naini (Allahabad) on February 18, 1911.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/17/1994North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
6/25/1922Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
8/30/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.
3/17/1987Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
7/21/1883Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.