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Historical Event on 6/16/1920
Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/8/1971 | Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died. |
| 11/27/1962 | Britain agreed to supply arms to India. |
| 12/26/1989 | The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament. |
| 9/25/1947 | Kashmir accedes to Indian Union. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 5/27/1991 | Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court appointed to probe into Rajiv Gandhi murder case. |
| 7/6/1944 | Mahatama Gandhi was for the first time addressed as 'Father of Nation'. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 9/29/1993 | National Human Rights Commission set up. |
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