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Historical Event on 10/16/1942

Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1957Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
8/27/1987B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal.
4/26/1993Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers.
9/14/1992Three days of heavy rains cause flooding in northern India and Pakistan claiming 2,500 lives.
1/31/1992The Securities and Exchange Board of India given statutory power as an autonomous body.
4/1/1936Orissa state was formed as a province of British India separating from Bihar.
2/13/1922The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
8/25/1997Forest outlaw Veerappan seeks more time to decide on his surrender as per the terms of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka government.
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.