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Historical Event on 2/16/1993
Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/18/1906 | Depressed Classes Mission Society' was established by Vitthal Ramji Shinde. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 4/13/1997 | Anand wins Dos Hermanas chess crown. |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
| 6/16/1992 | P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away. |
| 9/21/1898 | Tushar Kanti Ghosh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 1/6/1947 | All India Congress Commitee accepted the division of country. |
| 11/15/1937 | Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 11/29/1916 | Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan. |
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