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Historical Event on 3/16/1928

C.V. Raman announced his discovery of ''new radiation'' to an assembly of scientists at Bangalore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
9/12/1899T. N. Swaminathan Pillai, master of Karnataka Classical Music, was born.
12/28/1990Following the war threat as the January 15 deadline set by UN for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait approaches, GOI advise Indians in Gulf to send back their families to India.
10/1/1997Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries.
12/12/1976Madanlal Dhingra's ashes were brought to India.
5/2/1981Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away.
7/31/1948State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta.
2/19/1902Pandit Lallu Ram appointed as Hindi Professor at Fort William College, Calcutta.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
1/9/1946Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away.