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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
12/15/1932Tirunellai Narayana Iyer Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
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.
12/24/1984Eigth General Elections of India began .
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
5/22/1991Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away.
12/3/1971India recognises Bangladesh. Indian army marches into Bangladesh and joins hands with Mukti Bahini. Pakistani Army in Bangladesh surrenders to the Indian Commander.
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
7/28/1924Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south.
8/7/1988N. T. Ramarao elected chairman and V.P. Singh the convenor of the National Front.