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Historical Event on 2/18/1994

India rejects OIC offer to mediate on Kashmir.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1997Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918-1999) retired from the post of 9th President.
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
6/26/1906Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
1/10/199526th International Film Festival of India opens at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.
3/7/199922 persons are killed and six injured when an AN-32 transport aircraft of the IAF crashes at Pappankulam near Indira Gandhi International Airport in south-west Delhi.
7/29/1802Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army.
1/22/1998Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra.
8/15/1947Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the new boundaries of West Punjab, East Punjab, West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam.
10/24/1992Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects.