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Historical Event on 1/18/1985
Spy ring cracked. Top Government officials, businessmen held.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 2/1/1968 | United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi. |
| 7/27/1992 | Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died. |
| 4/9/1893 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, politician, professor and Hindi writer, was born at Pandaha, Azamgarh. |
| 12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
| 12/25/1876 | Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born. |
| 1/22/1903 | Shankar Das Banerji, lawyer and politician, was born at Calcutta. |
| 7/17/1979 | Jagjivan Ram elected Janata parliamentary party leader. Charan Singh is PM heading Janatha (S)-Congress coalition and Jagjivan Ram is leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1/23/1664 | Shahaji Raje died in an accident. |
| 1/23/1664 | Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398. |
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