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Historical Event on 3/18/1916

Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.

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5/12/1906Gandhiji support the ""Home Rule"" for India in the name of ''justice and for good of humanity"".
7/25/1987Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President.
6/20/1921Tilak University was established.
6/20/1921Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak Dev, was born on Baisakhi in a Khatri family in Talwandi Rae Bhoe in Pakistan, known as Nankana Sahib. Guru Nanak's birthday has been traditionally celebrated on Katik Poornamashi. Althought the correct birth date has been established as Vaisakh 1 (April 14), it will continue to be celebrated on Katik Poornamashi until such time as it is changed to Vaisakh 1. (Most Sikhs in the present day consider themselves members of a separate religion.).
8/16/1932Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
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4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
7/1/1982MGR inaugurates Tamil Nadu's noon meal programme for poor children.
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