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Historical Event on 3/18/1972
First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1919 | Ahmed Mohammad Mamsa, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1963-73, was born at Mumbai. |
| 4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/12/1997 | India elected to executive board of UNESCO. |
| 3/1/1818 | Singhgad won by the Britishers after the end of Peshwa kingdom. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 1/1/1931 | Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki. |
| 6/26/1991 | Sharad Pawar joins Union Cabinet as Defence Minister. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 9/30/1997 | At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir. |
| 8/27/1998 | India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide. |
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