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Historical Event on 5/18/1974
First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1946 | London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. |
| 9/7/1995 | Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh CM, wins the vote of confidence. He received 227 votes. 31 were neutral. |
| 6/29/1991 | A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal. |
| 12/10/1907 | Rudyard Kipling, author of `The Jungle Book' and `Kim', received the Nobel prize for literature. |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
| 4/7/1934 | Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience in India. |
| 11/18/1978 | Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 3/12/1995 | Congress party loses India national election. |
| 6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 12/15/1932 | Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
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