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Historical Event on 3/18/1996

President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
2/20/1985Bhawani Prasad Mishra, progressive Hindi poet, passed away. His most famous poem is ""Main Geet Bechtaa Hun"".
6/9/1986First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai.
10/31/1990Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead.
11/5/1996Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case.
11/20/1760Phattesingh Bhosle passed away.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
8/18/1990Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
7/23/1927Daily radio transmission broadcasting in India started by Bombay Radio Station. This was the first Commercial Radio Station.
1/3/1922Kirat Chothairam Babani, versatile Sindhi Writer and Journalist, was born.