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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
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
1/5/1994Jnanpith Award was given to U. R. Anantha Murthy (Kannada).
12/25/1999An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops.
1/15/1921Babasaheb Anantrao Bhosle, eighth Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.
9/14/1992S. A. Banerjee, cricketer who played one Test for India in 1948 without scoring any runs but took 5 wkts, died.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
9/23/1908Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born.
5/1/1964Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
10/12/1993National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up.