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Historical Event on 2/16/1994
Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, veteran singer of 'Jaipur Gharana', passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1949 | Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions. |
| 1/21/1996 | Lakshmi Parvati elected president of Telugu Desam NTR faction. |
| 9/9/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan. |
| 6/23/1990 | Harindranath Chatopadhyay, famous poet, actor and former member of Parliament, passed away. |
| 8/5/1921 | Malhi Govind, modern Sindhi novelist, was born. |
| 9/2/1956 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India). |
| 9/14/1997 | Catholic churches in Kerala introduce the system of serving the holy Eucharist in the palm of the faithful instead of on the tongue. |
| 5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
| 1/21/1945 | Shri Rashbehari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away at Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 60. |
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