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Historical Event on 1/16/1995
Missile carrier vessel 'Vidhrut' dedicated to nation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/9/1984 | Balasarasvati, eminent classical Karnatic singer and Bharat Natyam dancer of worldwide acclaim, passed away in Madras. |
| 1/19/1977 | World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'. |
| 12/11/1988 | Dr. Nagendra Singh, 74, President of the International Court of Justice, passed away in Hague. |
| 12/8/1994 | At 1730 hrs, a rocket propelled grenade fired by Somalia militia during inter clan fighting exploded on the roof of the barrack which housed IAF officers. In the explosion, two officers and an airman were injured. |
| 4/10/1999 | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village. |
| 1/11/1986 | The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary. |
| 12/15/1976 | Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit |
| 9/8/1960 | Feroz Gandhi, a prominent member of the Lok Sabha,died in New Delhi. |
| 9/8/1960 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 9/9/1997 | G. K. Moopanar, Tamil Maanila Congress president, and his party colleagues Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, and Peter Alphonse, resign from Rajya Sabha membership following a petition filed by Shiv Sena member Sanjay Nirupam seeking their disqualification 'for defecting from Congress(I)'. |
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