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Historical Event on 6/16/1997
K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/19/1966 | Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 12/7/1993 | Lalthanhwala sworn in CM of Mizoram. |
| 10/31/1843 | Tarkanath Gangopadhyay, first realistic social novelist of Bengal, was born. |
| 10/31/1843 | Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 7/9/1755 | E Braddock, British General, was mortally wounded during French & Indian War. |
| 12/12/1955 | The President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union. B.G. Kher Commission (under article 344(I) of the Constitution) constituted. Hindi Teaching Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 11/12/1996 | Over 350 people die in mid-air collision in Bhiwani district, Haryana. |
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