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Historical Event on 4/18/1970

Dr. Dharmendra of the Indian Council of Medical Research awarded the Damien-Duttan Award for outstanding work in leprosy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/11/1999Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19.
4/29/1924Purushottam Ramchandra Behr, famous writer and Editor of Marathi literature, was born.
10/31/1843Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born.
5/9/1917Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
10/1/1993The two helicopters along with the first batch of fifteen personnel were ferried out in an AN-12 from Delhi to Mogadishu. The two helicopters were provided by 111 HU.
1/10/1987Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
6/25/1931Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India, was born.
12/16/2000Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International.
9/19/1960Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan.