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Historical Event on 8/18/1957

Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1659Aurangzeb declared as the Emperor at Delhi.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
12/19/1919Malik Kafur, Alauddin Khilji's Commander, won the impregnable fort of Devgiri. The fort was entered by the enemy. Raja Ramdeva was taken prisoner and sent to Delhi where Alauddin recieved him untill his death in 1312.
9/27/1925Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established.
9/1/1947Indian Standard Time was adopted.
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
2/24/1880Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born.
9/7/1988President's rule in Mizoram.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
11/27/1778Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon.