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Historical Event on 6/16/1925

Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/20/1932Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.
2/27/1931Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
2/7/1931Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born.
5/16/1999Senior Congress leaders oppose Sonia Gandhi as Prime Minister.
4/16/1992The PM gives a new slogan to the nation, 'Desh banao, desh bachao'.
11/12/1929First Maharastrian Governor Shripad Balwant Tambe was appointed as Governor of Nagpur.
11/7/1966Riots over slaughtered cow claims seven lives.
9/19/1996India Development Forum pledges $7b. to India.
12/17/1972New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.