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Historical Event on 7/18/1993

India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/2/1997A division bench of Mumbai High Court holds that a married woman of a joint Hindu family can stake a claim to her father's property.
8/6/1920Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon.
10/23/1934Gandhi resigns as leader of the All India Congress.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
10/15/1997Arundhati Roy (37), Delhi-based author wins Britain's most prestigious literary award 'Booker Prize' for her novel "The God of Small Things'
12/17/1934Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
2/18/1905Shyamji Krishna Varma established India House in London to help Indians visiting England. He also established the Indian Home Rule society, which helped him to raise his voice against British Domination in India.
4/18/1914Jamshedji R. Patel, cricket Test Umpire for 9 tests from 1948-59, was born in Mumbai.
6/14/1947Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.