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Historical Event on 8/18/1700
Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/22/1993 | Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike. |
| 9/6/1774 | British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conqure Pune. |
| 10/25/1997 | 180mw Lower Periyar Hydroelectric Project in Kerala commissioned after 13 long years. |
| 10/11/1927 | Sarojini Regani, great journalist, was born at Secunderabad. |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
| 10/16/1997 | Queen Elizabeth visits Kalakshetra where she witnesses Bharatanatyam show and film shooting at MGR Film City, Taramani in Chennai. She also goes to Kancheepuram and Sriperumbudur (Rajiv Gandhi memorial). |
| 11/5/1998 | India and Pakistan agree to continue their talks on the Tulbul navigator project on the Jhelum in Kashmir, despite differences over various provisions of the Indus Water Treaty of 1960. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
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