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Historical Event on 9/18/1972
Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1968 | Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name. |
| 11/14/1993 | Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who quit JD, joins BJP. |
| 5/13/1996 | Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party. |
| 2/6/1949 | India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad. |
| 9/29/1994 | Gulf nations suspend Indian flights on account of plague epidemic. |
| 11/2/1841 | Akbar Khan revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan. |
| 7/13/1907 | Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born. |
| 1/31/1948 | Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 5/29/1906 | Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), was born in Bombay. |
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