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Historical Event on 10/18/1992
1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/27/1912 | Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar 'Kusumagraj', great Marathi poet, play-wright, novelist and Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Awardee, was born. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 5/15/1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
| 3/20/1997 | Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra. |
| 9/11/1875 | Koyaji Jahangir Kuwanrji, famous economist, was born. |
| 3/25/1989 | India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation. |
| 3/25/1989 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
| 1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
| 11/22/1991 | Supreme Court declares Karnataka's ordinance on Cauvery water dispute as unconstitutional. |
| 10/16/1999 | Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister. |
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