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Historical Event on 9/18/1972

Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
9/12/1998India, Malaysia sign an agreement on cooperation in science and technology in Kuala Lumpur.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
6/16/1997K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election.
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
11/30/1858Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
5/27/1930Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement.
5/1/1886May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.
11/19/1962Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi.