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Historical Event on 5/18/1998

India may take the US to WTO.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/15/1992Price of petrol, diesel and cooking gas hiked.
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.
4/2/1970Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.
5/9/1996LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections .
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
7/24/1996Govt. decides to raise the ceiling on the maximum amount of retirement/death gratuity from Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 2.50 lakhs.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.
3/20/1993Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.
6/19/2000Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana.
10/2/1996Mother Teresa made honorary US citizen.