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Historical Event on 5/18/1998
India may take the US to WTO.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/22/1764 | The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro. |
| 11/20/1942 | Attri Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested for further six months. She was earlier arrested for personal satyagraha and to hoist the national flag in Delhi Central Jail on January 26. |
| 2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 8/19/1910 | Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala. |
| 5/26/1998 | Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation. |
| 8/8/1911 | Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic. |
| 6/19/1990 | NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan. |
| 3/1/1818 | Singhgad won by the Britishers after the end of Peshwa kingdom. |
| 12/28/1983 | Gavaskar achieves his 30th century beating Bradman's 29. |
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