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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.

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2/21/1997Sonic Multani bags National snooker title in Mumbai.
1/1/1931Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki.
12/28/1932Britain says it is to release 28,000 prisoners, including Gandhi.
3/22/1977Indira Gandhi-led Indian National Congress party lost the 6th general election of India. She resigned as Pime Minister of India.
6/30/1817Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died.
6/30/1817Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur.
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.
10/4/1993PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore.
7/22/1991Pandit Basavraj Rajguru, great singer, passed away.
9/17/1998Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.