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Events for March 18

18-March-1896	Pandit Kunjilal Dubey, freedom fighter, educationalist and politician, was born at Amgaon, District Narsinghpur.
18-March-1915	British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people.
18-March-1916	Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
18-March-1919	Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people.
18-March-1922	Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their ca
18-March-1924	Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra.
18-March-1938	Shashi Kapoor, famous film producer, director, actor and dramatist, was born in Calcutta. He has made sucessful films like Junoon, Kaliyug, Heat and Dust, etc.
18-March-1944	Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.
18-March-1944	Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India.
18-March-1948	Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress.
18-March-1948	Eknath Dhondu Solkar, cricketer (India 1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder), was born in Bombay. He is recipient of Arjun Award (1973).
18-March-1953	Backward Classes Commission inaugurated.
18-March-1972	First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi.
18-March-1974	Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away.
18-March-1990	Devi Lal, Deputy PM, withdraws his resignation.
18-March-1991	West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
18-March-1992	Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
18-March-1996	President confers gallantry awards on 65 personnel of the defence forces.
18-March-1997	Indo-Bangladesh friendship treaty, signed 25 years ago, expires.
18-March-1998	A.B. Vajpayee, the Prime Minister-designate, releases the 'national agenda for governance' in New Delhi. It is silent on the Ram temple issue, scrapping of Article 370 and a uniform civil code.