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Historical Event on 5/16/1932
Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
9/18/1972 | Government of India announces increase of minimum bonus to workers from 4\% to 8.33\%. |
1/2/1959 | Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83), was born in Purnea, Bihar. |
5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
4/16/1991 | President's rule imposed in Haryana. |
12/19/2000 | A massive blaze guts Mehboob Studio, one of the oldest in Mumbai city. |
2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
2/11/1935 | Lalita Narhar Bapat, famous marathi novelist, was born. |
4/2/1953 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away. |
1/16/1996 | Union Cabinet Minister V.C. Shukla, Balram Jhakar, Madhavrao Scindia, and others including BJP President L.K. Advani, Arjun Singh and Devi Lal chargesheeted in the multi-crore Jain `Hawala' case. CBI seeks sanction to prosecute them. L.K. Advani resigns from Lok Sabha membership. |
4/15/1998 | Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna. |
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