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Historical Event on 1/18/1990
Farooq Abdullah, J&K CM, quits.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 10/3/1890 | Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 5/3/1999 | Cochin Port Trust men and Southern Railway women won the 21st Federation Cup volleyball titles in Pathanamthitta. |
| 10/2/1971 | Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 10/27/1926 | Padmanabh Govind Joshi alias ""Nana"" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper during 1950's was born in Bar |
| 5/17/1916 | Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore. |
| 10/18/1927 | Ramesh Vithaldas Divecha, cricketer (11 wickets for India in early 50's), was born in Bombay. |
| 6/25/2000 | India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 8/30/1751 | Sir Robert Clive exhibited a heroic feat when the British troops captured Arcot form Chanda Saheb. |
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