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Historical Event on 1/16/1858
Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged.
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| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 12/15/1997 | Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University. |
| 1/11/1973 | Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore. |
| 9/30/1997 | Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff. |
| 5/5/1942 | Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
| 5/12/1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
| 1/8/1925 | The first All India Art & Craft Exhibition was inaugurated by Sir William Marries, Governor UP at Kaisar Baug, Lucknow. |
| 4/7/1997 | NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi. |
| 2/4/1990 | Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India. |
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