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Historical Event on 8/18/1997

Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1987Hyderabad beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.
11/17/1953Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
12/1/199217 ministers of the BJP government in Rajasthan quit for the 'Karseva' at Ayodhya.
9/9/2000Venus Williams wins the women's singles in the U.S. Open championship.
4/1/1954Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee became the first Indian to become the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 08/Nov/1960.
11/16/1860First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.
7/15/1980Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.