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Historical Event on 1/18/1977
Morarji Desai and other opposition leaders were released from jail and Lok Sabha was dissolved by the president during the emergency period.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/1897 | Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 6/3/1992 | Kerala CM K. Karunakaran injured in a road accident. |
| 11/18/1948 | Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna. |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
| 11/12/1996 | Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana. |
| 12/4/1910 | Ramaswami Venkataraman, former President of India (1987-92), was born. |
| 7/31/1948 | State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta. |
| 1/3/1997 | Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM, inprisoned for 27 days, released on bail. |
| 7/22/1996 | 1996-97 budget presented to Parliament by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram. |
| 3/22/2000 | India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. |
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