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Historical Event on 6/18/1988
V.P.Singh defeats Congress rival Sunil Shastri in Allahabad Lok Sabha election.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/15/1904 | Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born. |
| 11/11/1888 | Acharya Kripalani, nationalist and member of the Parliament, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 10/3/1978 | Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta. |
| 1/31/1995 | ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997). |
| 6/12/1891 | Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 6/14/1958 | Dr. C.V. Raman receives the Lenin Peace Prize in Kremlin. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 12/12/1991 | Violence in Karnataka over the centre's notification on Cauvery. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
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