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Historical Event on 9/16/1931
R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1987 | Times Eye Research Foundation was established in Amritsar, India. |
| 1/20/1879 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born. |
| 5/9/1995 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. He was 68 years. |
| 7/19/1925 | Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P). |
| 10/20/1990 | Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died. |
| 3/23/1942 | Japanese forces occupy Rangoon, Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean. |
| 2/24/1948 | The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February. |
| 2/24/1994 | Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%. |
| 12/3/1971 | Indo-Pakistan war begins. On the same day National Emergency was declared by the President of India due to war between both the countries. |
| 8/1/1966 | Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya (HPKV) was established at Palampur under the aegis of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, to cater to the need of hilly areas of erstwhile Punjab. |
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