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Historical Event on 1/18/2000
India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/20/1997 | Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President. |
| 12/14/1901 | Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder. |
| 2/22/1885 | Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, great nationalist leader, was born. |
| 12/12/1925 | Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar alias ""Dattu"" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowler all-rounder for India), Kolhapur, Maharastra, was born. |
| 2/6/1955 | 55 miners die in explosion in Bihar State. |
| 1/1/1949 | A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated. |
| 10/13/1679 | More than 20,000 lives were claimed near Massurla Pattanam city, costal area of South India, in a severe storm. |
| 10/13/1679 | Allau'd-din Hasan Gangu alias Jafar Khan. The Muslim kingdom of Bahmani dynasty in the south as Sultan Allau'd-din Khalji. He renamed Gulbarga, his capital as 'Hasanabad'. |
| 5/19/1993 | S. W. Sohoni, 4 Tests for India, 83 runs @ 16.6, 2 wkts @ 101, passed away. |
| 2/25/1897 | Dr. Amarnath Jha, educationist, was born. |
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