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Important events of history that took place in India and elsewhere on today’s date.
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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