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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
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
8/20/1997Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.
12/7/1999Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
6/19/199013 Sri Lankan Tamils, including EPRLF Secretary General Padmanabha, were shot dead in Madras reportedly by LTTE men.
6/28/1857Nana Sahib proclaimed himself as the Peshwa and called for the total extermination of the British power of India at Bithoor.
10/2/1955Nehru inaugurated an Integral Coach factory at Perambur.
8/15/1950Earthquake measuring 8.6 on Richter Scale hits Assam in north eastern India claiming 11,000 lives.