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Historical Event on 2/18/1992

Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1873Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born.
2/21/1953Tillaya Dam and Bokaro Power Station opened by the PM.
1/31/1992LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court.
6/16/1997P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi.
6/13/1943Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
5/1/1926Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
6/13/1999The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector.
9/29/1991Ustad Yunus Hussain Khan, famous singer of 'Agra Gharana', passed away.
2/2/1917Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away.
8/20/1988Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed.