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Historical Event on 1/18/1998

India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/26/1888Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born.
10/26/1937Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born.
5/27/1951Taraporewala Aquarium was inaugurated at Mumbai by President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
11/15/1999The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana.
4/20/1954Panchsheel agreement between China and India.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
1/30/1947Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
5/13/1916Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born.
7/1/1941C. Y. Chintamani died.