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Historical Event on 4/18/2000

A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1917J. F. Maden gave a preview of the first Bengali fiction film ""Satyawadi Raja Harischandra"".
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
1/12/1990Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
3/15/1901Guru Hanuman was born at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. He was the pioneer and contributor of wrestling in India. He was bestowed with the Padamshri in 1983. His pupil Satpal and Kartar Singh won Gold Medals in Asian Games.
7/11/1997Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.
8/10/1993Narayan Keshav Upasni, famous educationist, passed away.
9/29/1999Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
8/2/1987Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.