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Historical Event on 8/16/1958

Pather Panchali' won the top five awards, including feature length motion picture, and got a honorary mention at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/5/1966Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
9/26/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, dispatched a team of experts to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to assess the water storage position.
8/6/1998SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.
2/3/1990Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was finally arrested in Chakradharpur forest.
9/17/1999India and the United States begin high level consultations to find ways on countering terrorism.
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
4/3/1857Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also.
7/22/1918During the First World War, India's first fighter pilot Indra Lal Rai's plane was shot down in battle by Germans planes near London. Rai had fought for Britisher's Force.
5/16/1946Gandhiji's Cabinet Mission announces Plan.
7/2/1926Ram Sewak Yadav, social reformer, politician and leader, was born in Tala Village, Uttar Pradesh.