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Historical Event on 9/18/1965
Communist government threatens dire consequences on discovering Indian bases on the Chinese side of the China-Sikkim frontier in China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 1/14/1761 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 2/20/1994 | Government makes the first appointment under 27\% reservation for Other Backward Classes in Central Services and Public Sector Undertaking. |
| 2/24/1786 | Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India. |
| 7/3/1991 | Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% . |
| 11/7/1912 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 1/3/1922 | Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born. |
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