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Historical Event on 8/16/1991
Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1980 | Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final. |
| 8/18/1900 | Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born. |
| 9/22/1979 | Israel conducts nuclear test at Indian Ocean. |
| 8/9/1963 | India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow. |
| 12/11/1993 | Shankar Dayal Sharma, President, inaugurates the extended new wing of Nagpur Vidhan Bhavan. |
| 7/1/1999 | K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 3/21/1836 | National Library was established. |
| 9/24/1995 | Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University. |
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