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Historical Event on 8/18/1957
Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/2/1880 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born. |
| 10/22/1947 | There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 6/5/1997 | Prime Minister Gujral went on a 3-day visit to Nepal. |
| 2/14/1901 | Sambamurty Pichhu, music teacher, was born. |
| 3/4/1895 | Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 6/3/1818 | Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends. |
| 4/6/1956 | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92),was born in Rajapur, Maharashtra. He has received Arjun Award (1981) and Padmashree (1987). |
| 2/15/1920 | Kanti Mehta, trade unionist, was born at Calcutta. |
| 10/21/1994 | Government notifies substantial increase in the ceiling on election expenses on Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. |
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