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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 |
| 10/24/1904 | Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born. |
| 2/23/1962 | The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979). |
| 3/11/1881 | Ashley Eden unveiled in Calcutta Town Hall the first statue of Indians Ram Nath Tagore and Dwarkanath Tagore. |
| 6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
| 12/10/1886 | Rameshwari Nehru, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Lahore. |
| 12/23/1959 | Edward Fredrick Lindlewood Halifax ""Irwin Lord"", English viscount and Governor General of India (1925-1931), died at the age of 78. |
| 12/8/1930 | British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists. |
| 7/14/1998 | India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights. |
| 12/25/1994 | Giani Zail Singh, former President of India, died in Chandigarh at the age of 78. |
| 4/26/1908 | Judge Sarv Mittra Sikri, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
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