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Historical Event on 5/18/1988

The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
8/1/1927Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
5/13/1997Doordarshan drops plans to enter the direct-to-home (DTH) mode of television transmission.
1/18/1999The office of the Board of Control for Cricket in India is ransacked allegedly by Shiv Sainiks protesting agains Pakistan team's tour of India. Shiv Sena denies hand in attack.
8/26/1984An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers.
1/29/1999Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi.
4/22/1996Hiteshwar Saikia, chief minister of Assam (1991-96), passed away at the age of 62 years, and Dr. Bhumidhar Barman became new CM.
1/27/1967Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.