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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
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
1/28/1998All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty.
11/20/1990Mulayam Singh Yadav's JD (S) ministry wins a confidence motion (224-146) with the help of Congress (I) in Uttar Pradesh.
7/9/199517 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas.
4/15/1975Janata Party's `People's March' to Parliament.
2/8/1994Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".
5/26/2000Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
10/6/1999INLD-BJP combine wins by big margin in Haryana.