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Historical Event on 1/16/1945
Kabir Bedi, famous Hindi and foreign actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry), was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/18/1992 | Vasantrao Karnik, great journalist, passed away. |
| 1/17/1941 | Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days. |
| 1/2/1878 | Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and first president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, was born at Perunna village, Kerala State. |
| 12/22/2000 | Three Army jawans die in an attack by a suicide squad of Lakshar-e-Taiba at the Red Fort in Delhi leading to a 45-minute gun-battle. |
| 9/7/1905 | Raghunath Govind Sardesai, journalist and Marathi litterateur, was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 7/1/1952 | Olympic Games open at Helsinki. |
| 4/27/1993 | A national credit fund for women called the 'Rashtriya Mahila Kosh' set up. |
| 6/29/2000 | The Election Commission derecognises seven regional parties in some states -- Samata Party in Haryana, Shiv Sena in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and the RJD in Manipur, NTR-Telugu Desam Party in Andhra Pradesh, the Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) in Chandigarh, the United Minority Front in Assam and the Haryana Vikas Party in Haryana-- These will remain registered but unrecognised parties. |
| 10/30/1933 | Dara Nadirsha Dotiwala, cricket Test umpire for 6 tests from 1981-88, was born in Mumbai. |
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