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Historical Event on 1/16/1992
For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.

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7/18/1980	Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
12/5/1999	India's Yukta Mookhey is crowned Miss World.
1/27/1988	The first ever helicopter mail service was inaugurated at Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The first flight was from Port Blair to Havelock Island and its inaugurated by the Governer of Andaman and Nicobar Island.
2/6/1955	55 miners die in explosion in Bihar State.
11/19/1978	Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.
5/28/1996	BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.
5/26/1885	Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born.
1/10/1897	Wildemar Modecai Haffkine, famous scientist, innoculated himself with vaccine against Plague publicly to demonstrate the harmlessness of the product in Bombay. The method of preparation of this vaccine has remained the same till now for more then hundred years.
8/11/1893	First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
2/11/1913	Surendranath Dwivedi, educationist, politician and writer, was born in Khandasahi (Orissa).

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Historical Event on 1/16/1992 For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.

Historical Event on 1/16/1992
For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.