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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
11/23/1897Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, writer, was born.
4/15/1942George VI awards the George Cross to the people of Malta.
9/27/199573 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine.
9/30/199724th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum.
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
1/5/199860 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.
2/3/1988INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers.
2/22/1913Judge Mirza Hameedullah Beg, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born in Lucknow.
5/10/1905Pankaj Malik, music director, was born.
10/2/1972Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.