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Historical Event on 1/18/1970
Kishan Singh at Cuttack sets record for 50 Km W.in 4.19.48.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/8/1994 | Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away. |
| 8/26/1874 | Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born. |
| 4/4/1990 | MI-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35, thus becoming a dedicated Attack Helicopter unit of the IAF. |
| 9/1/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu assumes office as the new CM of Andhra Pradesh. |
| 9/21/1746 | French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras. |
| 2/7/1795 | Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies. |
| 8/7/1986 | Lok Sabha passes Constitution 53rd Amendment bill conferring statehood on Mizoram. |
| 12/28/1885 | Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee. |
| 3/25/1997 | Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 1/26/1950 | India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation. |
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