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Historical Event on 2/16/1896
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
| 9/17/1929 | La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras. |
| 5/29/1993 | Ramesh More, Shiv Sena MLA, was murdered. |
| 6/18/1991 | Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority. |
| 1/28/1853 | Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
| 7/31/1991 | Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1993. |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 9/1/1947 | Indian Standard Time was adopted. |
| 1/5/1990 | Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team. |
| 5/28/1966 | B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 21-02-1973. |
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