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Historical Event on 7/16/1999
17 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1948 | Mohammad Ali Jinnah, father of Pakistan, died. |
| 12/5/1657 | Murad proclaimed himself Emperor of India. |
| 6/4/1997 | Fourth Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1D), carring advanced remote sensing cameras launched by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-1D), in service. |
| 3/3/1997 | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
| 10/23/1883 | Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia, a pioneer in Indian Geology, was born at Surat in Gujarat. |
| 6/26/1888 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani. |
| 12/24/1993 | Khanprabha Bhaduri, famous Bengali poet and writer, died. |
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