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Historical Event on 5/18/1973
A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'.
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| 6/24/1946 | Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 7/21/1658 | Aurangzeb celebrated his being the emperor of Mugal Empire at Delhi. He was informally enthroned. |
| 2/27/1999 | Union Budget presented. Fiscal deficit cut to 4.4 per cent. |
| 12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
| 7/15/1902 | Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 11/9/1998 | India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi. |
| 10/15/1931 | Avil Pakir Jalaluddin Abdul Kalam better known as "APJ", famous Indian scientist, was born in the temple town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu. He is the pioneer of India's missile programme and was awarded the country's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, in 1997, for his immense and valuable contribution to scientific research and modernisation of defence technol |
| 8/20/1986 | A restructured 20-point programme announced. |
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