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Historical Event on 8/18/1700
Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/19/1757 | The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company. |
| 8/2/1877 | Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, was born in Sagar, M.P. |
| 10/1/1941 | No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 7/21/1935 | Establishment 'Mumabi Marathi Sahitya Sangh'. |
| 1/7/1859 | The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29. |
| 8/12/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Dadenelis. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 5/19/1990 | S. R. Bommai unanimously elected President of JD. |
| 1/22/1965 | Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai. |
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