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Historical Event on 9/18/1997
President K.R. Narayanan inaugurates Mammen Mappillai Hall at Kottayam, Kerala.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 4/22/1983 | Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85. |
| 2/7/1997 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''. |
| 6/14/1886 | Orphanage for little girls was established. |
| 6/19/1931 | Nandini Satpathy, politician, was born at Cuttack in Orissa. |
| 6/2/1965 | The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India). |
| 7/17/1947 | Ramdas Coastal Steamer sank off Bombay claiming 550 lives. |
| 5/4/1990 | Supreme Court directs Central Government to set up a Tribunal to resolve Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
| 8/18/1891 | Jain Muni Mishrimalji, poet, social reformer and orator, was born at Pali, Rajasthan. |
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