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Historical Event on 5/18/1901
Nibaran Chandra Chakrabarti, great poet and Hindi writer, was born in Brahmangaon, (Dacca).
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| 8/28/1972 | General Insurance Business was nationalised. |
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| 8/5/1978 | Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra. |
| 1/22/1986 | Satwant Singh, Balbir Singh and Kehar Singh, all sikhs, were sentenced to death for the assassination of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
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