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Historical Event on 8/1/1958

Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
10/12/1993RBI liberalises credit and monetary policy.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".
4/19/1976Indira Gandhi proposes a resumption of ties with Pakistan in New Delhi.
3/9/1996Chaudhary Randhir Singh appointed Governor of Sikkim.
8/19/1916Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President of India, was born.
3/21/1997Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.
4/9/1994C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.