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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 |
| 9/4/1983 | INSAT-1B runs into snag, its solar array fails to deploy fully. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
| 1/10/1993 | India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40. |
| 12/26/1914 | Dr. Shushila Nair, social reformer, was born in village Kunjah, district Gunjra, Punjab (now Pakistan). She dedicated her life to serve Gandhiji and Gandhi Ashram and also performed the duties of Indian citizen by taking active participation in freedom movement. |
| 12/26/1914 | Kritiwas, writer of Ramayana in Bengali language, was born. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 5/25/1937 | Munshi Ajmeri passed away. |
| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 11/2/1971 | Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives. |
| 4/20/1991 | Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away. |
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