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Historical Event on 11/16/1887
Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/4/1989 | Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away. |
8/25/2000 | Veerappan seeks release of 121 prisoners, including 51 booked under TADA at the Mysore prison and compensation to victims of STF excesses |
2/22/1958 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government. |
12/26/1831 | Hennry Louis Vivian Derozio passed away. |
7/31/1948 | State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta. |
2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
4/1/1989 | Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away. |
1/18/1994 | India hires the law firm McAuliffe, Kelly and Rafaelli for lobbying in Washington. |
5/22/1993 | Karnataka special task force guns down Veerappan's brother and righthand man Arjunan. |
9/30/1981 | Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International. |
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