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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 |
| 6/1/1927 | Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 5/3/1927 | Riots between Sikhs and Muslims in Lahore claims 14 lives and leaves 100 injured. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 4/1/1992 | ESI ceiling of Rs. 3000 comes into effect. |
| 4/21/1994 | Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film. |
| 5/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away. |
| 2/11/1944 | Buddhadev Dasgupta, director (Charachar, Grihajuddha), was born. |
| 7/10/1994 | Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died. |
| 3/25/1927 | Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
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