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Historical Event on 8/18/1997
Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched.

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6/23/1980	Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I).
7/25/1995	India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
3/1/1903	Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born.
1/1/1934	Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
10/1/1854	Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
11/5/1945	Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.
12/10/1999	Dara Singh, the prime accused in the killing of Australian missionary, again gives a slip to police.
3/25/1996	31st Gyanpith award presented to M.T. Vasudevan Nair at Trivandrum by Dr. Karan Singh.
6/17/1993	Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .
11/22/1999	V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.

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Historical Event on 8/18/1997 Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched.

Historical Event on 8/18/1997
Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched.