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Historical Event on 2/16/1927

Rail service started between India and Nepal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1994Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72.
7/9/1873Henry Albert John Gidney, greatest leader and politician, was born in Igatpuri, Maharashtra.
8/5/1907Kashi Nath Pandey, politician and Trade Unionist, was born in Fursatpur Village.
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
7/9/1996A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial.
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
12/19/1919Sunil Kumar Banerjee, cricket Test Umpire for 1 test from 1963-64, was born at Bengal.
9/14/1997Catholic churches in Kerala introduce the system of serving the holy Eucharist in the palm of the faithful instead of on the tongue.