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Historical Event on 5/18/1992
President R. Venkataraman reaches Beijing.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/4/1956 | Apsara, India's first large scale Atomic Energy Nuclear Reactor and first in the East World, was commissioned in Trombay, Bombay. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 5/18/1985 | Dr. P. C. Alexander appointed High Commissioner in Britain. |
| 8/22/1877 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
| 9/6/1993 | CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M). |
| 5/31/1995 | Statute Bill, a constitutional amendment bill, introduced in Lok Sabha to extend reservation in jobs and in promotion for SCs and STs. |
| 12/28/1981 | Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned. |
| 4/18/1858 | Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 10/20/1963 | Navjot Singh Bhagwantsingh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Patiala. |
| 4/25/1982 | India's first telecast colour broadcasting started on Dordarshan. |
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