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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
5/3/1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri (1884-1980) became the acting President of India.
11/18/1727Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India.
12/5/1943The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port.
1/9/1994Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul.
6/17/1947Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly.
3/28/1645Har Govind Singh, Sikh Guru, died.
5/17/1999Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
2/19/1812Congregational missionaries Adoniram Judson, 23, and his wife Ann, 22, first sailed from New England to Calcutta. (Judson eventually concentrated his labors in Burma).
3/4/1879Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India.
6/9/1900Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, died in Ranchi Jail.