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Historical Event on 11/16/1983
Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/4/1924 | Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born. |
| 6/24/1989 | A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal. |
| 12/14/1998 | The Supreme Court allows Karnataka to begin skeletal work on erection of 26 crest gates at the Almatti dam on the Krishna at ''its own risk and cost'', but directs it not to raise the dam height beyond the present 509 metres. |
| 9/29/1993 | National Human Rights Commission set up. |
| 12/3/1971 | During the ensuing melee, three of the Sabres were shot down while all Gnats returning to base were unscathed. The first blood of a new Indo-Pakistan air war had been drawn. Other encounters were to follow over the next 10 days within both Indian and Pakistani airspace, before a full-scale war began. |
| 1/24/1870 | Muddan, famous Kannad poet and novelist, was born. |
| 8/1/1899 | Kamala Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, was born. |
| 6/15/1949 | Uloor S. Parmeswara Iyer, famous poet, writer, editor and literature, died. He was 72. |
| 5/15/1992 | BSE closed. |
| 10/16/1945 | Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established. |
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