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Historical Event on 5/18/1946

Gandhiji discusses Plan with Cabinet Mission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/21/1997Inder Kumar Gujaral sworn as the 12th Prime Minister of India, along with old council of ministers in the H. D. Deve Gowda govt. minus Tamil Maanila Congress Minister and D. P. Yadav of Janata Dal.
11/27/1920Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra.
3/11/1993Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao returns to Jammu & Kashmir as Governor.
10/6/1999The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu.
1/16/1916Amat Debananda, politician, was born in Balani village at Orissa .
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
8/1/1882Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
1/14/1926Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
7/22/1981India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.