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Historical Event on 9/18/2000

President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1946India grants Siam a 20 year, 3 mil. credit to increase export of Siamese rice.
7/5/1658Aurangzeb arrested Murad.
10/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.
9/4/1997Dharmavir Bharti, great journalist and editor of Dharamyug, died at 6 am.
12/14/1955Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay.
10/25/1989P. Baiju, Anand Shetty, Arjun Deviah, Ananda Natarajan set a record for India at the 4x100m relay meet in 40.14s at Islamabad.
7/28/1972India and Pakistan sign Simla Pact, settling border dispute in Kashmir.
9/6/1972Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player, passed away.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
2/23/1962Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.