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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
6/13/1940Revolutionary leader Udham Singh was hanged for charges of assassinating Micheal Odair, who was the Governor General of Punjab at the time of Jalianwala Baug massacre.
10/12/1907Durgaprasad Mandelia, famous merchant and industrialist, was born.
9/30/1997Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.
6/13/196660 people were killed in a collision between two suburban trains of Bombay.
1/14/1760Eyree Coote, British Army Captain, captured and surrendered Pondicherry, capitulated French General Lally.
5/16/1999Senior Congress leaders oppose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.
1/7/1859The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.
6/8/1992Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached.
8/12/1952Social Welfare Board inaugurated in the Parliament.
2/28/1930Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates.