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Historical Event on 1/16/2000
Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1990 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1841-1956) (Posthumous). |
| 6/20/1946 | Kashmir authorities arrest President-elect Nehru for refusing to obey an order banning him from the state. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 11/7/1990 | National Front Government headed by V. P. Singh loses confidence motion in the Lok Sabha (151-356). Singh tenders his resignation and this is the end of 11-month-old National Front Government. |
| 5/19/1913 | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born. |
| 7/14/1923 | Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan). |
| 12/19/1984 | 2,500 killed in Bhopal gas tragedy. |
| 4/19/1995 | Gopala Ramanujam,Goa Governor, takes up additional charge of Kerala. |
| 11/6/1930 | First Round Table Conference held at London. |
| 5/28/1963 | Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India). |
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