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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 |
| 7/19/1998 | Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 11/18/1997 | School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 5/30/1915 | Krishen Behari Lall, Indian Civil Service and Diplomat, was born at Delhi. |
| 1/10/1959 | Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi. |
| 3/31/1663 | Mir Jumla, Mughal Commander, passed away in Bihar. |
| 6/23/1975 | Prannath Thapar, former Chief of Army, died. |
| 6/16/1950 | Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
| 9/11/1824 | Shivling Surge died at Alpayu. |
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