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Historical Event on 4/12/1967

U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
3/1/1990BJP swept to power in Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, shares power with JD in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
1/14/1843Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born.
1/18/1994Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM.
6/28/1972Prasanta 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.
12/8/1897Balkrishna Sharma ""Navin"", famous Hindi poet, was born in Bhyana village of Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh
8/5/1965Jaya Prakash Narayan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for public service.
5/20/1972Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta.
7/3/1751Pilaji Jadhav died.
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.