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Historical Event on 1/18/1992
Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/12/1983 | Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars. |
| 3/21/1997 | Foreign currency reserves of RBI stand at $16 billions, which was a record of sorts. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 12/13/2000 | Vijay Samuel Hazare, former Indian cricket captain, becomes the first recipient of the 'Castrol Lifetime Achievement award'. |
| 8/10/1993 | Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10. |
| 6/17/1973 | Leander Vece Paes, tennis player who singles bronze at Atlanta Olympics (1996), was born. He was also a winner of French Open in 1999, Gold Flake Open, Newport 1998, Wimbledon 1999 (doubles and mixed doubles). |
| 11/24/1899 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District. |
| 12/15/1957 | 60 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
| 5/6/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
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