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Historical Event on 2/18/1988
Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/27/1998 | 7 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 3/16/1910 | Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi sr, England & India), was born in Pataudi, Punjab. |
| 7/29/1748 | Boscawen landed 25 km south of Pondicherry. |
| 1/20/1972 | Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory. |
| 1/16/1916 | Amat Debananda, politician, was born in Balani village at Orissa . |
| 8/19/1993 | Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died. |
| 7/12/1957 | Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan. |
| 8/9/1969 | Ochterlony Memorial in Calcutta was renamed as 'Shahid Minar'. |
| 11/6/1997 | Chief Executives of public sector banks and Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, after a meeting in New Delhi, decide to grant greater administrative autonomy to select public sector banks. |
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