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Historical Event on 2/18/1911

Under the auspices of the British Army, French pilot Henry Pequet makes the first official airmail flight from Allahabad to Naini Junction.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1984Sushma Mukhopadhyay, first Indian women pilot, died at the of 74.
3/1/2000P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament.
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
7/18/1993Rail, road traffic disrupted.
2/14/1924Ikramullah (Ikram Sagri) Khan, famous Hindi poet, was born at Rehli in Madhya Pradesh.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
2/14/1990An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people.
12/4/1993Mulayam Singh Yadav, takes over as CM of UP; Bhairon Singh Sekhawat of Congress sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
3/27/1977N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.