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Historical Event on 2/18/1988

Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/23/1984Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Limited at Jamshedpur, conquers the summit of Mount Everest to become the first Indian woman and the fifth women in the world to achieve this feat.
9/24/1726King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
2/15/1993India regains ""Rubber"" after 6 years by beating England by an innings and 70 runs at Madras.
9/11/1991Tax concessions announced.
9/1/1942Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army.
9/15/1912Rusi Karanjia, journalist and publisher, was born.
1/1/1995Raman Lamba & Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi.
4/8/1937R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
4/25/1993Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.