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Historical Event on 6/18/1979
Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
5/22/1989 | IRBM 'Agni' Missile launched successfully from Chandipur, Orissa. |
2/25/1886 | Narmadashankar Lalshankar Dave 'Narmad', social reformer and famous Gujrati litterateur, passed away. |
9/29/1755 | Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India |
2/16/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India begins. |
1/25/1988 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Marudu Gopalan Ramachandran, MGR (Posthumous) (1917-1987). |
3/17/1997 | A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI. |
4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
7/12/1947 | Pochiah Krishnamurthy, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1971 WI tour), was born in Hyderabad. |
8/12/1992 | 72 militants surrendered before Punjab CM Beant Singh. |
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