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Historical Event on 5/18/1995

Sukhomoy Sengupta, 76, Tripura's first CM, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1832Publication of 'Darpan' magazine started.
4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
11/27/1920Kanhaiyalal Bhagwandas Harjal, educationist, was born at Mohpa, Maharashtra.
10/27/2000The Vajpayee Government 'clears' the names of Surjit Singh Barnala, Prabhat Kumar and Dinanath Tiwari for appointment as the Governors of the new States of Uttaranchal, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh respectively.
7/2/1928Nandkishor Bal, great Odia poet, passed away.
8/8/1923Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India.
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.
9/4/1880Bhupendranath Dutt, Bengali litterateur and politician, was born.
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.