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Historical Event on 4/18/1971
Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/26/1947 | Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion. |
| 11/1/1913 | Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco. |
| 12/16/1924 | Nissim Ezekiel, educationist and author, was born. |
| 7/1/1992 | Central Railway started special train for ladies in Mumbai. |
| 1/31/1931 | Gangadhar Mahambre, famous Mmarathi writer, was born. |
| 12/4/1920 | Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Patton), was born in Jhansi, India. |
| 3/19/1954 | The first helicopter S-55 arrived at Bombay by sea. |
| 2/9/1993 | Silver prices crash as the govt allows passengers to import upto 100 k and reduces customs duty on 35 baggage items from 255 to 150 \%. |
| 10/2/1904 | Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 6/1/1997 | New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10. |
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