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Historical Event on 2/18/2000
Pandit Ravi Shankar is selected for this year's Subbarami Reddy Kalapeetham Foundation Award, a life-time achievement award, for his contribution to Indian music.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/5/1952 | Nawab of Pataudi Sr, cricketer (played polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India), died. |
| 12/28/1932 | Britain says it is to release 28,000 prisoners, including Gandhi. |
| 9/20/1886 | Kuladhor Chaliha, one of the pioneer Congress leaders of Assam, was born at Sibsagar. |
| 8/9/1998 | India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports. |
| 10/13/1781 | A treaty was singed between the Britishers and ruler of Gwalior, Scindia. |
| 1/26/1995 | Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured. |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
| 4/19/1996 | AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989. |
| 6/12/1972 | D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died. |
| 9/5/1995 | 30 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993. |
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