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Historical Event on 10/18/2000

Supreme Court gives the nod for construction of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada river.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1950Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
5/24/1813Krishna Mohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist in Bengal, was born.
8/2/1959Little Theatre was established.
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
1/22/1877Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam.
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
2/25/1999Nizam Shah became the Sultan of Dehli.
7/22/1991Pandit Basavraj Rajguru, great singer, passed away.
10/13/1999No change in portfolios of Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Fernandes.
11/28/1704Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born.