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Historical Event on 8/16/1980

Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/195081 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.
8/15/1997K.Sasikaran gets third IM norm in British Open Chess tournament.
9/6/1947Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
12/9/1999Several MPs in the Lok Sabha demand resignation of the CBI chief in the Priyadarshini Matto murder case.
9/7/1955All India Council of Secondary Education set up by the Government.
1/12/1901Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
4/4/1926Martial law is declared in Calcutta as rioting continues.