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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
2/11/1996Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta.
4/7/1920Ravi Shankar Bhattacharya, renowned Sitar player (Sounds of India), was born in Banaras, India.
11/30/1920N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
11/18/1937Rajinder Pal, cricketer (pace bowler in one Test India v Eng, 0-22), was born in Delhi.
9/28/1985The first Indian Army expedition, sailing around the world in a small 37 feet fibre glass yacht named ""Trishna"", sailed off from Bombay. (10-1-87).
12/4/1998Ilayaraja, nusic composer, selected for the Lata Mangeshkar award instituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government.
8/1/1963Soviets offer India arms to block China.
12/11/1783Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away.
3/4/1939Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia.