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Historical Event on 8/18/1985

Assam Assembly dissolved (18).

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1845First Shipping Company of India started.
11/11/1996A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500.
11/2/1885Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died.
10/31/1997Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi.
8/7/1905Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi.
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.
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
9/9/1942Shirish Kumar, martyr, died.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
11/3/1997American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity.