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Historical Event on 1/18/1998

India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1886May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.
3/25/193150 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted.
6/14/1992Tin Bigha activists lathi-charged in the Tin Bigha corridor in Coochbehar.
4/2/2000Guru Granth Sahib is a juristic person and can hold property, says the apex court in a judgment of ''far-reaching consequences and great significance''.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
3/8/1930Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
6/23/1953Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.