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Historical Event on 2/16/1923
Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani, famous author, poet and playwright, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/6/1999 | Sub. Jata Shankar secured 'Silver' medal in 400 Mtr race at the International circuit Athletic Meet held at Trivendrum. |
| 1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 5/19/1980 | T. N. Raina, former General of India, passed away. |
| 3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
| 2/8/1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432. |
| 12/23/1976 | Indira Gandhi attacks the pro-Moscow Communist party for enticing her son Sanjay, but she denies grooming him as her successor. |
| 8/21/2000 | Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
| 2/17/1917 | Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay. |
| 4/10/1760 | Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75. |
| 8/6/1905 | Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'. |
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