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Historical Event on 1/16/1990
Dr. R.R. Diwakar, Gandhian and former Union Minister, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/1859 | Tatya Tope (his original name was Ramchandra Raghunath Tope) a leader of Sepoy Mutiny, was captured in April, courtmarshalled and hanged at Sivpuri for 1857 Indian Mutiny. |
| 9/21/1857 | Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops. |
| 1/21/2000 | The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president. |
| 3/21/1977 | Internal Emergency, promulgated on June 25, 1975, withdrawn by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 8/5/1978 | Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra. |
| 6/17/1674 | Jijabai, mother of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 7/26/1891 | Rajendralal Mitra (Raja), famous Bengali ancient researcher, passed away. |
| 11/14/1998 | Prominent Indian Government and private entities are targeted in the Clinton Administration Entities List. American Companies are barred from trading with the listed companies. |
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