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Historical Event on 1/18/1999

The 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.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/6/1954Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India.
1/16/1920Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born.
3/20/1970Establishment of Muslim Satyashodhak Samaj.
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
8/2/1922Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born.
10/18/19921,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away.
6/26/1888Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani.
2/25/1869Anand Shankar Bapubhai Dhruv, Sanskrit Pandit and editor of monthly magzine 'Vasant' , was born.
1/19/2000M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
5/30/1999India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions.