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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
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
8/26/2000Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.
3/7/1647Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
7/11/1953Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra).
10/19/1689Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
8/18/1957Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.
2/6/1953Congress, PSP, CP and Jansangh recognised as All India parties by the Election Commission.
9/1/1999Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died.
8/18/199112 LTTE militants commit suicide.