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Historical Event on 4/16/1903
Kalka-Simla Railway line section was opened for public conveyance.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/26/1999 | Six selected for Shanti Swaroop award for Science. |
| 6/10/1959 | Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar. |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 4/2/1993 | MP High Court quashes dismissal of BJP Government under article 356; the Centre decides to move the Supreme Court. |
| 8/14/1900 | S. K. Patil, Congress leader, was born. |
| 2/12/1946 | 14 killed in Calcutta riots; Muslim leader Jinnah threatens civil war. |
| 10/12/1946 | Ashok Vinoo Mankad, cricketer (son of Vinoo, batted for India 1969-78), was born in Bombay. |
| 1/11/1986 | Union Government declares Ladakh a Scheduled Tribe area under a constitutional amendment order by the President, applying article 342 for the first time to J&K. |
| 11/16/1997 | Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender. |
| 9/23/1980 | Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial. |
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