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Historical Event on 9/16/1996

First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/9/1931A set of six stamps were issued during the inauguration of New Delhi.
8/18/1920Harbhajan Singh, educationist and writer, was born at Lumding.
4/24/1965Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal.
3/19/1944Azad Hind Fauj hoisted the National Flag for the first time in North East India. On this event Bimal Roy produced the film 'Pehla Aadmi'.
1/2/1899Monks started living in Belur Math.
10/10/1964Olympics opened at Tokyo
12/14/1962Bharathi Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's), was born in Vijayawada.
4/3/1999Indian 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.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.