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Historical Event on 2/16/1986
The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1986 | Akbar captured Ahmednagar. |
| 1/2/1964 | Raichaudhary Ambikagiri, nationalist Asamia poet, died. |
| 3/24/1855 | First long distance telegram message was opened between Agra and Calcutta at a distance of 1,300 km. |
| 2/3/1954 | Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi. |
| 2/3/1954 | Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat. |
| 11/16/1992 | Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 11/5/1950 | Faiyaj Khan, famous singer of Indian classical music, died. |
| 12/4/1898 | Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, Indian Scientist and Physicist-Philosopher, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 8/16/1922 | Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska. |
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