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People born on October 18
1919 – Williamson Ampang Sangma, a Garo leader, was the founding Chief Minister of Meghalaya.
1925 - Narayan Dutt Tiwari - Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
1950 - Om Puri - Famous actor of Hindi films was born in Ambala (Haryana).
1958 - Kajal Kiran. Actress
1968 - Former India spinner Narendra Hirwani was born in Gorakhpur.
1977 - Kunal Kapoor -film actor.
Died on 18 October
1909 - Lalmohan Ghosh was the sixteenth President of the Indian National Congress and a famous Bengali barrister.
1931 – Thomas Edison, the discoverer of electricity, died.
1976 - Vishwanath Satyanarayana - Famous Telugu litterateur.
1977 - Jyothika is an actress in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films.
1996 - Ramakrishna Khatri - was one of the leading revolutionaries of India.
2018 - Narayan Dutt Tiwari - Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
2019 - Kalidas Karmakar was a Bangladeshi artist. He specialized in viscosity printing.
2020 – Joseph Mar Thoma, the spiritual head of the Marthoma Christian community in Thiruvalla (Pathanamthitta) district of Kerala, passed away.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 18 October
- Shri Ompuri Birthday.
- Shree Narayan Dutt Tiwari Jayanti and Memorial Day (both today).
- Shri Williamson Ampang Sangma Jayanti.
- World Okapi Day.
Important Events of 18 October
1386 – Heidelberg University, Germany's oldest university, is founded.
1564 – John Hawkins, the naval commander of England, begins his second visit to America.
1565 – The Philippines formally joins the Asian colonies of Spain.
1572 - The Spanish army attacked Maastricht.
1648 – The Boston Shoemakers become the first labor organization in the North American colonies.
1748 – The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed, ending the War of the Austrian Succession.
1752 - "Le Devin du Village" is published at Rousseau's Opera House.
1767 – The Mason Dixon Line, the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, is agreed.
1775 - African American poet Phyllis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1790 – Josef Schelling by Friedrich Wilhelm is allowed to enroll in Tübinger Stif at an age earlier than usually permitted.
1851 - A Great Exhibition in London is closed. Join the "Haryana Educational Updates" Facebook page to receive this calendar directly from us and to receive various and educational news.
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison provided electricity for domestic use.
1891 – The first international six-day cycle race in America begins at Madison Schure Gardens in New York.
1892 – The first long-distance commercial phone line is introduced in the US between Chicago and New York.
1898 - The United States annexes Puerto Rico from Spain.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company is established, which was later renamed the British Broadcasting Corporation.
1944 – The Soviet Union begins fighting for the independence of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1954 - The Texas Instruments Company manufactured the first transistor radio.
1963 – Lord Home is elected as the next Prime Minister of Britain after a leadership upheaval in the Conservative Party.
1972 - Testing of the first multipurpose helicopter SA 315 in Bangalore.
1980 – The first Himalaya Car Rally is flagged off from the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1985 - Black poet Benjamin Molois is executed by the South African government despite widespread protests all over the world.
1989 – Erich Honecker, the Communist leader of East Germany, is removed from his post.
1991 – Azerbaijan, located at the mouth of Southwest Asia and South Eastern Europe, declares independence from the then Soviet Union.
1995 - The Eleventh Summit of Non-Aligned Countries begins in Cartagena, Colombia.
1998 - India and Pakistan agree to stop nuclear threats.
2000 - For the first time in Sri Lanka, opposition member Anura Bandaranaike is agreed to be the Speaker of Parliament.
2004 - Notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan killed.
2004 – Myanmar Prime Minister Khin Nyunt is deposed and placed under house arrest on corruption charges.
2005 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf suggests opening of the Line of Control for earthquake relief work.
2006 - Internet Explorer 7.0 is released at Microsoft.
2007 - After eight years, Benazir Bhutto returned to her homeland of Pakistan. 139 people were killed and 450 others injured in the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutte's motor car rally. Bhutto narrowly survived the suicide attack.
2007 – Canada's lower house of parliament approves a proposal to grant honorary Canadian citizenship to Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
2007 - The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is deployed in the Hatcreek area (San Francisco) to search for life in distant space.
2008- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati returned 189.25 crore acres of land to the Ministry of Railways for the Rail Coach Factory in Rae Bareli.
2019 – Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir of the US space agency NASA made history by walking outside the International Space Center (ISS).
2020 - The supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test fired from the stealth destroyer of the Indian Navy, INS Chennai.
2020 – At least 12 people are killed and more than a hundred are seriously injured in a suicide car bomb attack in the western Ghor province of Afghanistan.
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