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Historical Event on 8/16/1922
Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 4/23/1946 | Commonwealth Occupation Forces in Japan, exchanging its Spitfire Vllls for Mk XlVs in October and arriving in Japan aboard HMS vengence. |
| 8/29/1998 | Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated. |
| 6/14/1947 | Congress Working Committee met at New Delhi to draft the resolution to be placed before All India Congress Committee on the acceptance of Mountbatten plan for the partition of India. |
| 3/28/1926 | Pahelam Ratanji ""Polly"" Umrigar, cricketer (Indian batsman & captain), was born in Sholapur, Maharashtra. |
| 5/25/1941 | Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted patriot and freedom fighter, was arrested in Jaisalmer. He wrote two books ""Jaisalmer Rajya ka Gunda Shasan"" and ""Raghunath Singh Ka Mukadma"" for which he was prohibited to enter in Jaisalmer. |
| 12/6/1976 | Nana Patil, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 2/16/1997 | Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti. |
| 12/1/1963 | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union. |
| 1/14/1843 | Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born. |
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