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Historical Event on 11/18/1972
Tiger was adopted as India's 'National Animal'
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1921 | Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad. |
| 5/18/1966 | Panchanan Maheshwari, great Indian scientist of botany, passed away. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers. He discovered species of plants like ""Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil."" He wrote two authoritative books, 'An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms' & 'Recent Advances in Embryology on Angiosperms'. In 1951, he founded the International Society of plant Morphologists. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 7/15/1979 | Morarji Desai resigns as PM. Jagjivan Ram elected Janata Parliamentary party leader. |
| 11/9/1999 | Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour. |
| 6/29/1992 | Congress (I) nominates K. R. Narayanan for the Vice-Presidentship. |
| 1/16/1966 | Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune. |
| 1/23/1920 | Air transportation began in India by two Royal Air Force planes between Karachi and Bombay, and Air Mail service started. |
| 12/22/1887 | Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/2/1905 | Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born. |
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