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Historical Event on 8/18/1951

Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/19/1954The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board.
11/12/1885Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
10/13/1905Sister Nivedita died.
2/3/1988INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers.
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
6/14/1929Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
12/23/1944U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.
1/11/1990R. Shekhar became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 14/12/90).
9/1/1978Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/Aug/1981.