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Historical Event on 8/16/1991
C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1960 | Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
| 10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
| 6/1/1995 | Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government. |
| 6/1/1995 | Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat. |
| 11/11/1913 | Gandhi sentenced to nine months' imprisonment at South Africa. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 6/17/1928 | Pandit Gop Bandhu Das, famous writer, social worker and the creator of Orissa, passed away. |
| 3/29/1954 | Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated. |
| 3/3/1982 | Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died. |
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