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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
6/14/1995RBI announces the introduction of appointing ombudsmen to redress grievances and disputes of bank customers.
12/17/1910Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
3/15/1941Gorkha Rifles Battalion Group (INDBATT) unit was raised as the 4th Battalion, the 2nd King Edward VII's own Gorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Lt Col O'de T Lovett at Deharadun.
11/24/1963Marotrao Kannamwar, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, passed away.
11/24/1963Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.
3/21/1973Yashwant Ramkrishna Date, great Marathi dictionary creator, passed away.
2/26/1937Manmohan Desai, film producer and director, was born.
2/24/199525 jawans die in an explosion in Brahmaputra Mail near Nilalong station about 200 km from Guwahati.
4/1/1989Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away.