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Historical Event on 5/16/1932
Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1985 | Rajendra Sethia, the biggest personal bankrupt ever, arrested in New Delhi. |
| 1/15/1956 | Erach Jahangir Sorabji Taraporewala, famous Indian language expert, passed away. |
| 8/23/2000 | India, Japan unveil new global partnership and agree to start a formal security dialogue. Sanctions status quo on CTBT. |
| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 6/13/1918 | Foundation stone was liad of Sir Kawasjee Jahangir Public Hall in Mumbai. |
| 7/12/1998 | India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 3/1/2000 | P.Harikrishna becomes India's youngest International Master in the Sangli International chess tournament. |
| 11/3/1988 | Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives. |
| 5/20/1996 | Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away. |
| 3/31/1997 | Lakhubhai Pathak, prominent NRI businessman who had accused Narasimha Rao of cheating $ 100,000, died in London. |
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