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Historical Event on 11/18/1997
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in New Delhi. Ms. Albright said she raised the 'all-important issue of terrorism' with Pakistan's top leadership.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/1992 | Congress (I) chooses Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma as Presidential candidate. |
| 4/20/1989 | Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails. |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 1/4/1907 | Govind Rai, renowned Gujarati novelist and writer of 'Saraswati Chandra', passed away. |
| 7/19/1965 | Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 11/7/1908 | N. R. Shede (Annasaheb), litterateur and editor, was born. |
| 5/9/1981 | Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden. |
| 7/10/1964 | Bangalore University was established in Karnataka. |
| 2/28/1997 | The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11. |
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