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Historical Event on 12/16/1770

Ludwig Van Beethoven, greatest musician, poet and innovator, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1999Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
11/13/1780Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was born.
9/22/1789Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department.
12/8/1920A. Adivi Reddy, social reformer and educationist, was born at Chandragiri, AP.
1/7/1990President returns the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bills of 1986 to Parliament at the instance of the Government.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
6/25/2000The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.