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Historical Event on 8/18/1995
Parvati Giri, also called the Little Mother Teresa, died in Orissa. She was 69. She was a social worker and had taken part during the Quit India movement.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/19/1977 | Cyclone hits Andhra Pradesh causing flooding and tidal waves and killing 10,000. |
| 7/14/1992 | The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K. |
| 6/22/1993 | JPC draft report raps B. Shankaranand and censures Manmohan Singh. |
| 10/19/1979 | T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 3/10/1945 | Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born. |
| 1/16/1924 | In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died. |
| 1/18/1930 | Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 6/14/1997 | India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory. |
| 1/1/1920 | Seth Darbari Shah, great industrialist, was born in Ikhlas. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
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