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Historical Event on 1/18/1959
Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/2/1992 | Six new ministers inducted into the Union Cabinet. |
| 8/23/1995 | First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 3/31/1998 | T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99). |
| 6/14/1985 | M.C. Sharma was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 10-12-1985. |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 10/6/1999 | Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes. |
| 11/12/1896 | Salim Moizuddin Abdul Ali, explorer, ecologist, teacher, writer and bird watcher, was born. |
| 1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
| 1/21/1956 | Amir Timur left Delhi. He took the title 'Emperor of India' and recrossed the Indus on March 11. |
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