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Historical Event on 3/18/1990

Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1746French sailor's fleet reached at the bank of Pondichery in India.
7/9/1746The Sultan, losing his hold over the army and some members of his aristocracy, very wisely abdicated in favour of his brother Ahmad, who is famous in Deccan history as Ahmad Shah Wali.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
7/13/1907Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born.
12/8/1911Gaandhiji invites Gokhale to South Africa.
1/29/1955'Bhartiya Kamgar Kisan Party' established.
1/22/1906Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah, chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
5/3/1913Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay.
4/1/1996Kerala introduces ban on arrack. 5614 licenced arrack shops closed down.
12/13/1984The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect.