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Historical Event on 7/18/1987

Amitabh Bachhan resigns his Lok Sabha membership.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/7/1999Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.
7/11/1964M C Chagla, Union Minister of Education, turns the first sod for the foundation of the 4 ft tunnel.
7/23/1906Chandrashekhar Azad, great freedom revolutionery and leader, was born at Jhabra, Madhya Pradesh.
3/27/1993Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours.
11/2/1976Lok Sabha passes the 42nd Constitution Amendment Bill making India a Socialist Secular Republic and laying down the fundamental duties of citizens.
11/10/1698East India Company purchased Calcutta, which had not more than a village at that time.
11/12/1999A 50-member BJP ministry led by Ram Prakash Gupta is sworn in Uttar Pradesh.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
3/2/1938Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away.