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Historical Event on 1/16/1920

Nani Palkhiwala, famous law expert, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/15/1986Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England.
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
3/30/1993Air Time Committee Chief P.S. Deodhar and its members resign in protest against the implementation of the metro channel of Doordarshan.
8/29/1974Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
3/21/1976The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government.
12/16/1999India agrees to Financial System Stability Assessment (FSSA) by the IMF.
1/1/1894Satyendranath Bose, Professor and famous Indian physics expert, was born, He worked with Albert Einstein for some time.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
11/7/1862Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.