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Historical Event on 11/12/1958
Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/18/2000 | K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine. |
| 1/14/1995 | The 5th Pay Commission suggests trimming of bureaucracy. |
| 1/22/1992 | Government raises Suzuki share in Maruti to 50 per cent making it the first public sector company to go private. |
| 7/22/1998 | India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka. |
| 7/18/1634 | Joannes Camphuys, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1684-91), was born. |
| 10/20/1992 | Nirad C. Chauduri, 94, the Indian writer living in Oxford, made honorary Commander of the British Empire. |
| 8/17/1997 | I K Gujral, Prime Minister, said that Queen Elizabeth should not go to Amritsar, scene of Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, during her visit to India in October. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 2/18/1988 | Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, freedom fighter, political leader, great social reformer, teacher and national president of Samyukta Socialist Party, passed away. |
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