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Historical Event on 5/18/1988

The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1952Community Development Programme started.
9/14/1967US announces plan to give India $1.3 million to buy contraceptives.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
8/11/1993Brahmaprakash Chaudhary, first Chief Minister of Delhi and former central minister, died.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.
5/28/1903Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).
11/23/1991India decides to upgrade its ties with the Soviet Republics.
4/7/1935Shankar Abaji Bhise, famous Indian scientist, died.
5/16/1995Government of India decides not to extend the validity of TADA Act.
8/15/2000Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, says in his Independence Day address, ""Borders cannot be redrawn either in the name of religion or on the strength of the sword"".