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Historical Event on 7/16/1996
Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence.
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| 9/28/1991 | Shankar Guha Niyogi, an active trade union leader of Madhya Pradesh, was shot dead by unknown assailants. |
| 5/17/1865 | Raobahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai `Riyasatkar' was born. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 10/6/1999 | The DMK front is set to win a majority of LS seats in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/17/1929 | La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras. |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 1/28/1846 | Bahadur Tair, under their leader Mongol of Hulagu Khan, captured Lahore. |
| 8/21/1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
| 8/11/2000 | Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away. |
| 4/1/1994 | Five ministers resign from the Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa. |
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