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Historical Event on 11/16/1989

66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/4/1939Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia.
10/17/1915Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
6/17/1950Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away.
1/31/1948Cities swept by riots in wake of Gandhi murder.
10/6/1862Indian Penal Code was notified. However, it was implemented from 1st January 1862.
8/22/1988Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
7/23/1918Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh.
2/16/1968Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
12/11/1929Subhash Pandharinath ""Fergie"" Gupte, cricketer (brilliant Indian leg-spinner), was born in Bom
3/3/1948B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.