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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
12/5/1999India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
6/24/1991Two LIC officers burnt to death in Kashmir.
9/13/1928Shridhar Pathak, prominent Hindi writer, passed away.
11/23/1926Satya Sai Baba, Hindu universalist renaissance charismatic guru, educationalist and worker of miracles, was born.
12/3/1971Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared.
2/18/1975Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away.
3/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party.
3/8/1864Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912.
2/15/1997Conference of Inter-Parliamentary Union in New Delhi.