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Historical Event on 12/8/1998
An Indian film, 'The Terrorist' wins all top awards including the Golden Pyramid award for the best film at the 23rd Cairo International Film Festival. Santosh Sivan gets the best director award, while its actress Ayesha Dharker bags the best actress award.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
3/13/1857 | Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away. |
7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
3/29/1998 | The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha. |
7/25/1958 | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, inaugurated. |
10/17/1817 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of modern India, was born in Delhi. |
3/28/1986 | Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India. |
9/14/1919 | Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat. |
10/22/1912 | Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits. |
10/2/1869 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) born to a Bania (trading caste) family at Porbander, Kathiawar. He was the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand alias Kaba Gandhi, Prime Minister successively in Porbunder, Rajkot and Vankaner States, and his fourth wife Putlibai. |
7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
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