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Historical Event on 2/16/1992
Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/2000 | The Union Cabinet approves a proposal of the Civil Aviation Ministry to privatise the airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta and a new airport in Bangalore on a 30-year lease which can be extended by 19 years. |
| 1/24/1966 | Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board. |
| 3/3/1983 | Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi. |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
| 10/26/1996 | CBI detects a chain of bank transactions between August '93 and February '96 by four JMM leaders. |
| 8/18/1872 | Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar Gadgil, who provided new heights to North Indian classical music, was born at Kundanwadi at Kolhapur distrist in Maharashtra. |
| 6/20/1897 | Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born. |
| 3/3/1948 | B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away. |
| 5/9/1992 | M. J. Pherwani, National Housing Bank Chairman, resigns following his bank's involvement in the Security scandal. |
| 8/13/1953 | Durgabai Deshmukh became the founder Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board, which involved several voluntary organisations and workers carrying out programs like education, training and rehabilitation of needy women etc. |
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