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Historical Event on 3/18/1991

West Bengal opts for assembly poll.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1991Ordinance to amend MRTP Act and the Companies Act totally removes pre-entry restrictions on new industrial houses and expansion of the existing ones.
5/17/1996Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away.
11/29/1991Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath vs Australia at Gabba.
1/9/1916Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born.
7/23/1933Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, great leader, lawyer, social worker, freedom fighter, nationalist and president of Bengal Swaraj Party, died at Ranchi. He was addresed by the people of Bengal as 'Deshapriya' (Beloved of the Country).
5/1/1946Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India.
2/2/1862Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court.
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
2/24/1995A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.