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Historical Event on 1/18/1999

Prof. Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, is selected for Bharat Ratna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/3/1996Union Ministers P. Chidambaram and M. Arunachalam resign over the issue of revival of alliance between Cong (I) and AIADMK.
12/1/1993Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.
9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.
3/29/1989Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
12/15/1912Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
11/5/1892John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.
5/30/1915Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service and Diplomat, was born at Delhi.
3/29/1954Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated.
9/6/2000Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1.
12/21/1952Saifuddin Kitchlu awarded the Lenin Peace Prize of U.S.S.R. Award. He was the first Indian to receive this honour.