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Historical Event on 1/16/1996

Supreme Court says trial courts should hold trial of rape cases in camera.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1987MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force.
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
5/8/1910Tolstoy replies to Gandhiji that question of Passive Resistance is of greatest importance, not only for India but for humanity.
3/28/1996JKLF declared unlawful by central govt.
6/29/199324 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur.
2/11/1913Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa).
11/21/1947First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
4/3/1670Tanaji Malusure, right hand of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, passed away during the battle of Singhgad fort.
12/13/2000The Lok Sabha begins the Ayodhya-Babri Masjid debate.