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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 |
| 4/20/1993 | Jharkhand Movement suspends its 36-days old economic blockade. |
| 6/28/1972 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945. |
| 10/20/1997 | All India Hindu Conference begins at Hardwar. |
| 12/12/1925 | Dattatreya Gajanan Phadkar alias ""Dattu"" Phadkar, cricketer (pace bowler all-rounder for India), Kolhapur, Maharastra, was born. |
| 11/20/1998 | V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai. |
| 6/30/1934 | Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 8/25/1975 | Bundelkhand University was established in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 7/7/1948 | Damodar Valley Corporation, first public corporation, was established. |
| 5/15/1864 | Mahavirprasad Dvivedi, famous Hindi litterateur, poet, writer and editor, was born at Daulatpur village in UP. |
| 3/27/1993 | Hari Singh from Haryana hijacks an IA plane, but surrender after 8 hours. |
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