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Historical Event on 12/20/1957
Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
| 6/24/1928 | Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 12/28/1883 | Under the leadership of Surendra Nath Banerji, the political group of Bengal organised National Conference as ""Bharat Sabha"". |
| 2/21/1952 | General Election ( 1st) of India ends. |
| 3/24/1995 | Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away. |
| 4/29/1936 | Zubin Mehta, famous music conductor (NY Philharmonic), was born in Bombay, India. |
| 11/30/1974 | India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 3/31/1930 | Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, passed away in Geneva. |
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