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Historical Event on 5/18/1955

Hindu Marriage Act is amended.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/1992Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate.
7/17/1996Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth.
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
6/11/1999India provided incontrovertible tape evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Kargil sector. The Indian army killed 23 intruders in the Batalik and Dras sectors but lost 15 of its men.
11/18/1960Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away.
9/18/1932A Hindu delegation is given permission to interview Gandhi, currently held in prison and undertaking a hunger strike. On arrival, they also find he has taken a vow of silence.
4/14/1989Ranjan Roy, captain of Indian Navy, and his wife Rupali Roy started off in a Maruti car.
10/21/1995Suresh Mehta, Finance Minister in the outgoing Keshubhai Patel ministry, sworn in as the second BJP CM of Gujarat in Gandhinagar, ending the month-long political turmoil.
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
2/23/1996North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.