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Historical Event on 7/16/1931

C. T. Studd, 69, died. He was an English missionary, one of the 'Cambridge Seven,' who worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/27/1966D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968.
6/17/1862Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died.
1/29/1948Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.
1/29/1948Taimurlang passed away.
1/29/1948Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
1/1/1978Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived.
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
8/25/1990GOI announces formation of National Security Council headed by the Prime Minister.