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Historical Event on 3/16/1986
Internationally wanted criminal Charles Sobharaj and 6 other prisoners escape from Tihar Jail.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
| 2/26/1857 | First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 6/12/1990 | CPI(M) accuses Communist Party of Soviet Union of departing from the basic ideology of Marxism-Leninism in the name of correcting past distortions. |
| 3/1/1978 | Justice Y. Y. Chandrachud is sworn in as the Chief Justice of India. |
| 8/8/1940 | Dilip Narayan Sardesai, cricketer (high scoring Indian batsman of sixties), was born in Margao, Goa. He has received Arjun Award (1970). |
| 2/17/1976 | Urban Ceilings Act comes into force. |
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