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Historical Event on 7/16/1959
Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 12/5/1943 | The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port. |
| 9/8/1962 | Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration. |
| 1/3/1987 | Dr. Harekrishna Mehtab, former Chief Minister of Orrisa and Governer of Mumbai State, died. |
| 11/1/1932 | Anadi Sankar Gupta, great educationist, was born at Goila, Bangladesh. |
| 4/13/1984 | Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park. |
| 4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
| 8/5/1965 | M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born. |
| 8/2/1885 | Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born. |
| 1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
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