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Historical Event on 8/16/1922

Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/8/1911Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.
8/18/2000The Supreme Court rejects a petition filed by former Navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat challenging his dismissal from service and the consequent direction stripping him of the title Admiral.
3/12/1941Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.
9/30/1989INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay.
9/25/1997India clinches the Red & White Latif Masters International Snooker title in Karachi.
4/7/1986Charles Sobhraj and his associate David Hall were nabbed at Mapusa in Goa.
11/5/1945Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
6/26/1983Chandbibi made treaty with Murad and gave 'Varhad' area to Mughals.
7/8/1996Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996).