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Historical Event on 10/16/2000
Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 11/11/1991 | Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review. |
| 10/31/1999 | Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing. |
| 10/11/1988 | Janata Dal, a new national centrist opposition party, launched. V. P. Singh elected President. |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 12/26/1978 | Indira Gandhi released after week in jail for refusing to testify on corruption. |
| 3/13/1857 | Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away. |
| 9/29/1990 | Central Government adopt a three-pronged strategy to create additional 30 lakh jobs outside the government sector over the next five years. |
| 11/21/1962 | India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. |
| 11/28/1997 | Seven-month-old United Front government, headed by Prime Minister I.K Gujral, bows out of office. |
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