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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 |
| 10/20/1992 | Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire. |
| 3/22/1991 | President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament. |
| 6/28/1993 | A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested. |
| 1/15/1934 | Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed. |
| 4/13/1772 | Warren Hastings, who became the president of their Bengal Council, was appointed in the court of Directors of the East India Company. |
| 5/17/1873 | Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta. |
| 4/19/1910 | Anant Laxman Kanhere, revolutionary, was hanged. |
| 7/19/1763 | Mir Kasim was defeated in 'Katwa' battle by Britishers. |
| 1/4/1909 | Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 2/23/1932 | The N. W. Frontier province is created. |
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