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Historical Event on 6/18/1997
Prakash Padukone launches IBC.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1996 | Kerala CM Nayanar says Governors are not necessary in states. |
| 10/5/1991 | Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years. |
| 9/17/1899 | First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa. |
| 4/2/1954 | Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons. |
| 2/25/1927 | Balkrishna Buwa Echalkaranjikar, father of `Khyal Gayaki', passed away. |
| 7/25/1995 | India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95). |
| 3/20/1991 | Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/28/1931 | The 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. |
| 2/25/1992 | Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
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