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Historical Event on 7/18/1908

Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1928Nationalists issue a draft constitution calling for dominion status and a two-chamber parliament.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
4/2/1997Sumita Sinha of Dhanbad, (18 years college girl) became a world record holder when a 3,200 kg Ambassador car passed over her.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
12/26/1925Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born.
3/30/1988Tamil Nadu beat Railways by an innings and 144 runs to win Ranji Trophy.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
6/1/1993Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs.
7/8/1972Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta.
9/11/1906Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.