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Historical Event on 3/18/1974
Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1905 | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 6/16/1925 | Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 12/21/1974 | Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam. |
| 4/27/1748 | Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor, passed away and was succeeded by his son Ahmad Shah. |
| 6/9/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 3/31/1992 | Madhav Sinh Solanki, External Affairs minister, resigns on Bofors letter issue. |
| 4/8/1998 | Prem Singh Lalpura, who defied the Akali Dal leadership, not taking oath as a Lok Sabha member on denial of a ministerial berth, is expelled by the party. |
| 11/5/1870 | Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta. |
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