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Historical Event on 2/16/1982

Jawaharlal Nehru was staged first time in Calcutta Invitation International Gold Cup Football Tournament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.
7/17/1992Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion.
3/16/1924Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away.
3/15/1931M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu.
10/5/1890Kishorlal Ghanshyamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, was born.
4/29/1939Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India.
8/28/1667Sardar Jay Singh I, the famous king- Mirza Raja, a ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur) also in Aurangzeb's kingdom, passed away at Barhanpur.
12/4/2000India deports TULF functionary-turned LTTE supporter M.K. Eelavendhan, a Chennai resident for over a decade.
1/10/1993Atleast 15 people are killed in Bombay on the 5th day of riots between Hindus and Muslims.