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Historical Event on 8/18/1951

Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.

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8/18/1951Guru Ramdas, Sikh Guru, was born.
1/31/1997Government raises quantity of gold that can be brought into the country by non-residents to 10 kg. (from the existing 5).
2/1/1901Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded.
1/7/1956Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy.
5/19/1913Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born.
9/22/1986India vs Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie.
12/11/1996T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner.
3/19/1954The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea.
6/30/1991A 36-member Congress ministry led by Hiteswar Saikia assumes office in Assam.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.