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Historical Event on 5/18/1966
Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists.

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2/23/1997	Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile.
1/11/1986	Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K.
9/29/1959	Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat.
11/27/1972	Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan.
5/1/1926	Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
1/5/1992	Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.
12/19/1961	Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
3/30/1919	Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act.
4/16/1930	Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police.
2/13/1991	Muslim League leaves the UDF in Kerala.

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