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Historical Event on 10/16/1976
Jalgaon Radio Station started broadcasting.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1990 | PM V. P. Singh clears the Rs. 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar Project over the river Narmada. |
| 7/25/1976 | Sriram Singh at Montreal sets record for 800m in 1.45.77. |
| 1/11/1996 | Canadian PM Jean Chretien visits New Delhi. |
| 12/25/1846 | Swati Tirunal Ramavarma passed away. |
| 11/29/1953 | Bahuriya Ramswarup Devi, better known as Laxmibai of Bihar, passed away. She will be always remembered for Chapra District Revolt, whereby she tied seven British men and threw them in Narayani River. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 1/14/1994 | The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award). |
| 12/20/1866 | Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
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