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Historical Event on 5/18/1972

Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1972Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away.
12/27/1988The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
11/17/1935Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away.
8/15/1872Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.
3/12/1954Indian National Academy of Letters ""Sahitya Academy"" inaugurated by Dr. Radhakrishnan.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
9/16/2000Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
10/26/1934Akhil Bharatiya Gramin Udyog Sangh (All India Small Scale Industries Association) was founded and inaugrated by Mahatma Gandhi.
9/29/2000The Government raises the prices of petroleum products across- the-board while cutting import and excise duties on crude oil, diesel and motor spirit (petrol).