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Historical Event on 7/18/1996

Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1950Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
11/19/1962Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi.
8/12/1979Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
2/15/1924Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar.
3/13/1958Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India.
10/16/1992Capt. P. K. Sahgal of Azad Hind Fauz died. During the trial at the Red Fort, he said, "Beacuse I wanted freedom for my motherland , I was ready to shed my blood for it." (15-5-97
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
7/6/1944Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'.