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Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1894)
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay (24 October 1894 – 30 July 1987) was an Indian Bengali language author.

Mukhopadhyay was born on 24 October 1894 in Pandoul, a village of the Mithila region of British India. His ancestral village is Chatra, Serampore in West Bengal.

He received the Ananda Puraskar award in 1958, the Rabindra Puraskar in 1972 and the Sharatchandra Puraskar in 1978. He was also awarded the Jagattarini Gold Medal from Calcutta University, a D.Litt. degree from the University of Burdwan and Desikottama from the Visva-Bharati University of Shantiniketan.Mukhopadhyay died on 30 July 1987 in Darbhanga at the age of 93, He never married.

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    Kurt Waldheim

    The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the USA, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
  • 1May

    Auschwitz concentration camp

    Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  • 5Jul

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

    Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
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    RMS Titanic

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  • 7Nov

    Habib Bourguiba

    In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.