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Historical Event on 7/18/1996

Union Finance Ministry gives final clearance to the Enron power project in terms of issuance of counter-guarantee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
3/15/1908Police shoot four people in rioting.
1/5/1893Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions.
6/2/1992The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam.
10/11/1962Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives.
5/12/1966Sardar Sikandar Hayat, President of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, resigns.
12/29/1965First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
11/19/1998A. B. Vajpayee approves formation of the National Security Council, a new high-power hub, to give policy directions to safeguard the country's security.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.