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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

DateEvent Name
09/16/1913 Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
09/16/1916 M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born.
09/16/1916 D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
09/16/1929 Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari).
09/16/1931 Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
09/16/1931 Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
09/16/1931 R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
09/16/1932 Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
09/16/1954 The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
09/16/1955 Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
09/16/1967 Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
09/16/1973 Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
09/16/1977 Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay.
09/16/1990 Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
09/16/1995 Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
09/16/1996 First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
09/16/1996 J & K second phase poll for 34 seats.
09/16/1997 General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
09/16/1997 Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
09/16/2000 Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
09/16/2000 In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.


 


Other Historical Dates and Events
04/06/1968Indira Gandhi,PM, inaugurated the construction of Bokaro Steel Plant.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
06/23/1994Two Britishers held hostage by terrorists in Kashmir for 17 days were set free.
01/05/1952John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64.
06/18/1887Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, freedom fighter, educationist, leader and Minister of India, was born in Poiyavan village, Gaya district, Bihar.
09/18/1927Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce was established.
03/20/1991Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu.
01/19/1919Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.
10/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.
08/02/2000The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.