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Historical Event on 6/18/1989
India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1976 | The Division of Publication & Information was established in I.C.M.R. Headquarters. |
| 2/25/1844 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, was born. |
| 1/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College. |
| 7/10/1978 | 'Mahatma Phule Backward Class Development Corporation' (Mahatma Phule Magaswarg Vikas Mahamandal) was established. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 4/21/1913 | Preview show of 'Raja Harishchandra' was held on April 21 at Olympia Cinema. |
| 12/11/1968 | Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology. |
| 3/3/1934 | Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur. |
| 5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
| 10/28/1947 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K. |
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