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18 August

🇮🇳 In India
1700 Bajirao I, the great general of the Maratha Empire, was born on 1700.
1900 Indian political leader Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, one of the world's leading women in public life in the 20th century, was born in Allahabad.
1945 Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was badly injured in a plane crash in Taihoku, Taiwan. He later died in a military hospital.
1951 Indian Institute of Technology was established in Kharagpur.
🌎 Elsewhere
1227 Genghis Khan—a warrior and ruler of genius who, starting from obscure and insignificant beginnings, brought all the nomadic tribes of Mongolia into a rigidly disciplined military state—died.
1686 Giovanni Cassini, Italian mathematician, astronomer and engineer, reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus.
1926 A weather map was televised for the first time. It was sent from NAA Arlington to the Weather Bureau Office in Washington.
1964 South Africa is barred from taking part in the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo over its refusal to condemn apartheid.
2008 Facing possible impeachment, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned from office.


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