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Historical Event on 11/8/1960

Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.

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4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
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