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Historical Event on 8/18/1951
Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
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| 2/9/1917 | Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born. |
| 9/12/1779 | Garibdas, follower of Saint Kabir and founder of 'Garib Panth', died. |
| 9/12/1779 | Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan. |
| 6/29/1997 | Anand wins Frankfurt chess classic '97 title in Germany. |
| 2/11/1997 | A New Delhi district consumer court holds that provision of drinking water aboard trains is a necessity and it is the duty of the railways to provide it to passengers in reserved compartments. |
| 10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 4/10/1997 | Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai. |
| 12/17/1910 | Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/22/2000 | P. Shanmugham sworn in Chief Minister of Pondicherry. |
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