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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
8/7/1947BEST services were started by Mumbai Mahanagarpalika.
12/4/1999A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.
12/3/1998India and Portugal sign an agreement in New Delhi for setting up a joint committee to enhance cooperation in science and technology.
1/4/1940Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born.
9/6/1996CBI arrests four Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leaders in bribery case.
2/23/1932The N. W. Frontier province is created.
9/10/199587 of the 180 members of the newly constituted JAAC assume office.
4/19/1981Indira Gandhi,Prime Minister, inaugurated `Maharashtra Vidhanbhavan'.
1/4/1994Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.