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Historical Event on 1/16/1901

Mahadeo Govind Ranade, eminent social worker and thinker, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.
11/10/1990Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.
1/10/1693Job Charnock, founder of Calcutta, died in the same city and he was laid to rest.
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
12/6/1971US bars aid to India for aggression against Pakistan.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
9/30/1999Hindi writer Prof. Prem Shankar and Tamil scholar Ashokamitran selected for K.K. Birla Foundation Fellowships in comparative Indian literature.
2/22/1997Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.
4/1/1985Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture was established during the 7th Plan period. The Institute started functioning independently since April 1987. The Headquarters of the Institute are located in Chennai with field and farm facilities at Muttukadu and three Research Centres at Kakdwip(West Bengal), Puri(Orissa) and Narakkal (Kerala).