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Historical Event on 11/16/1997
Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/27/1962 | Britain agreed to supply arms to India. |
| 8/7/1941 | Rabindranath Devendranath Tagore ""Gurudev"", great Indian poet, voluminous playwright, Noble Laureate, social reformer, freedom fighter, painter and philosopher, passed away at Calcutta at the age on 80 years. He will be always remembered for the national song ""Jana Gana Mana"" and as a founder of Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketen, etc. |
| 3/20/1970 | Establishment of Muslim Satyashodhak Samaj. |
| 1/18/1930 | Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur (Tagore) and Mahatma Gandhi met at Sabarmati Ashram. |
| 11/17/1953 | Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 8/7/1998 | The Government announces a banking and foreign exchange package for development of the information technology and software industry following the recommendations of the National Task Force. |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
| 4/13/1940 | Najma Heptulla, Vice President of Rajya Sabha, was born. |
| 4/1/1989 | UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia. |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
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