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Historical Event on 10/18/2000

Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1999Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
10/24/1851First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.
5/4/1783Tipu Sultan was enthroned as the ruler of Mysore after the death of Haider Ali in a simple ceremony at Bednur. He continued the Second Mysore War against the English. He defeated many EnglishGenerals like Brithwhite & Col. Bailey. Tipu Sultan signed the treaty at Mangalore on 11th March 1784 A.D. which was known as the Mangalore treaty.
3/1/1924Naresh Mehta was born.
6/4/1992Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.
11/10/2000R.M. Shankara and Rashmi Kumari lift men's and women's title in the World carrom championship in New Delhi.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
12/10/1913The Nobel prize for literature was awarded this year to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet from India.
10/26/1930Gulal Bai Parekar, a14-year-old girl led a 13-girls team to hoist the national flag at Esplanade Park. A police sargeant tried to snach the flag and then kidnapped her.