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Historical Event on 9/18/1972

India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/30/1996Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996.
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
11/13/1993The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu.
12/1/1993Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.
11/19/2000Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
7/24/2000The trial in the Rs. 133 crore urea scam resumes after about one year in the special court for CBI cases in New Delhi.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.