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Historical Event on 10/16/1942

Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/9/1989Shyama Charan Shukla sworn in as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
9/27/2000Gurucharan Singh goes down fighting to Andri Fedtchouk of Ukraine in the 81 Kg bout of the Olympics boxing.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
12/26/1989Keshav Shankar Pillai, international fame cartoonist, painter, writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, passed away.
12/16/1951Salarjung Museum opened in Hyderabad.
9/2/1918Datta Deshmukh, water expert and President of `Lalnishan Party', was born.
6/15/1990Punjab Government returned gold and other valuables seized from Golden Temple during the 1984 Blue Star operation to SGPC.
1/5/1985Rajiv Gandhi promises to solve the Punjab problem without yielding to 'separatist ideologies.
2/12/1996Former Union Minister Kalpanath Rai sent to Tihai jail for allegedly harbouring members of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim's gang.