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Historical Event on 10/16/1968
Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 3/23/1997 | 10 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation. |
| 1/18/1992 | Ordinance cuts minimum poll campaign time to 14 days from 20 days. |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 10/12/1935 | Shivraj Vishwanath Patil, former Speaker of Lok Sabha, was born |
| 1/15/1988 | Narendra Hirwani makes a world record by capturing 16 West Indies wickets on Test debut at Chidambaram Stadium in Madras. |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 9/10/1976 | An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 aeroplane was hijacked for the second time and taken to Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 2/16/1986 | The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails. |
| 10/18/1952 | Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wickets to win first Indo-Pak clash. |
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