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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
4/14/1916Commandur Rajagopalachari Rangachari, cricketer (India 1947-48), was born at Mamandur, Tamil Nadu.
10/12/1991Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.
8/12/1988S. R. Bommai elected Karnataka CM.
6/17/1933The civil disobedience campaign ended.
1/23/1996Maharashtra govt. winds up the inquiry commission headed by Justice Srikrishna set up to probe the communal riots in Mumbai in Dec. 92-Jan. 93.
8/7/1887Kasturi Shriniwas Iyengar, politician and journalist, was born.
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
8/30/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, announced a package for small units raising the ceiling on loans from Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs. For the handloom sector, a separate scheme costing Rs. 447 crores was also finalised.
7/28/1994Sudhakarrao Naik, G. Ramanujam and O. N. Srivastava appointed Governors.
7/5/1905Lord Curzon joined the part of Bengal to Asam and divided Bengal.