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Historical Event on 8/16/1922
Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/28/1978 | Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe (1997), was born. |
| 1/3/1880 | Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started. |
| 3/1/1919 | Mahatma Gandhi announced his desire to start 'Satyagraha' against proposed Rowlatt Act meant to curb civil and political liberties. |
| 10/5/1868 | Laxmi Narayan Barua, Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 5/25/1991 | Indian, UN Angola Verification Mission - I ended (UNAVEM - I June 1989 - May 1991). |
| 6/30/1928 | Kalyanji, famous music director, was born. |
| 10/2/1942 | Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire. |
| 3/30/1994 | G-15 summit in New Delhi decides to set up a trade panel. |
| 9/21/1746 | French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras. |
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