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Historical Event on 8/18/1951
Indian Institute of Technology was opened in Kharagpur, West Bengal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 12/4/1999 | A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord. |
| 1/1/1997 | 30-year Ganga water sharing treaty between India and Bangladesh takes effect. |
| 7/4/1914 | Savlaram Ravji Patil (P. Savlaram), film lyrisist and story writer, was born. |
| 12/29/1975 | D.K. Barooah elected Congress President. |
| 10/10/1954 | First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'. |
| 9/27/1703 | More than 8,000 people died in a cyclone in England. |
| 4/27/1748 | Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor, passed away and was succeeded by his son Ahmad Shah. |
| 1/3/1880 | Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen (Indian Nobel Laureates), the economist-philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to welfare economics. |
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