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Historical Event on 4/18/1971

Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1971Meerabai, saint poet, passed away.
9/30/2000Gen. S. Padmanabhan takes over as the new Chief of the Army Staff from Gen. V. P. Malik.
7/12/1998India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
4/11/1964Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level.
6/18/1946Congress Working Committee decides to accept Interim Government scheme.
7/4/1997Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996.
8/16/1922Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
10/20/1999Quiet start to the 13th Lok Sabha.
7/21/1883Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.