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Historical Event on 7/16/1981
India performs nuclear Test.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/15/1950 | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, first deputy Prime Minister of independent India also known as the 'Iron Man' and Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
| 8/14/1993 | New governors for MP, Bihar, West Bengal & Tripura. |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 1/14/1993 | The Supreme Court absolves Railway Minister Jaffer Sharief of corruption charges in the wagon deal with Asea Brown Boveri. |
| 3/6/1991 | Chandrasekhar resigns as PM. |
| 9/20/1993 | First developmental launch of PSLV and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1E) carried remote sensing payloads. Could not be placed in orbit. |
| 3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
| 5/1/1997 | Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men. |
| 3/16/1924 | Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away. |
| 12/1/1921 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail. |
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