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Historical Event on 10/16/1878
Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1972 | Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich. |
| 10/14/1884 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, was born at Delhi. |
| 3/17/1957 | New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 9/16/1995 | Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 7/5/1968 | Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 2/5/1931 | Krishna Film Co., Bombay produced a 7,659 feet long 'Krishnatone Talkie Programme No. 1, which was released quite before the release of 'Alam Ara,' first talkie film of India. The Krishnatone Programme was censored at C.C. No. 9906 on February 5 and the programme contained the following: (1) Arabic Song (2) Indian Orchestra No.1 (3) Indian Orchestra No.2 (4) Indian Orchestra No.3 (5) Jal Tarang Solo (6) Hindi Song No. 1 (7) Hindi Song No.2 (8) Hindi Song No. 3 (9) Bengali Song (10) Garba No. 1 (11) Garba No. 2 (12) Gujarati Comic Song (13) Hindi Chorus Song No. 1 (14) Hindi Chorus Song No. 2 (15) Dilruba Solo (16) Violin Solo (17) Goanese Song. |
| 7/18/1908 | Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay. |
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