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Historical Event on 2/18/1993
Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1904 | The Great Indian Peninsula Railway started First Class restaurant cars on its mail trains. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 11/30/1759 | Alamgir was murdered by his minister Imad-ul-Mulk. |
| 7/1/1913 | Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born. |
| 6/6/1961 | Central Institute of Fisheries Education, a deemed university, was established in Mumbai to impart post-graduate education and training, mainly to the in-service fisheries personnel of the country to provide trained manpower for the fisheries developmental activities. |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 7/26/1891 | Rajendralal Mitra (Raja), famous Bengali ancient researcher, passed away. |
| 1/10/1922 | Museum of Prince of Wales, situated at Mumbai, opened for public. |
| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 4/19/1998 | Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters. |
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