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Historical Event on 2/18/1999
Ramakrishna Hedge, Commerce Minister, launched the India Brand Equity Fund (IBEF).
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/18/1999 | Guru Angad, Sikh Guru, was born. |
12/28/1995 | Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service. |
10/14/1953 | Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died. |
11/5/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
1/14/1982 | First Antarctic Expedition on December 1981-Jan 1982; group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim reached Antarctica successfully. |
3/1/1993 | India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'. |
6/10/1900 | Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born. |
10/26/1946 | 27 die as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued in Calcutta. |
8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
9/16/1929 | Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari). |
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