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Historical Event on 1/16/1966

Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1917Umesh Chandra Panigrahi, great author and journalist, was born at Raruan, Orissa.
3/31/1959Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India.
7/1/1990General Sunith Francis Rodrigues takes over as Chief of the Army Staff.
10/6/1927The first independent film processing laboratory, Atmanand Laboratory, was set up by Narayanrao alias Dhanjibhai K. Desai at Bombay.
5/13/1971General Insurance nationalized.
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
5/4/1998India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list.
3/17/1782Salby Teaty was singed between Anderson (British) and Scindia for the Maratha and East India Company.
6/18/1946First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese.
6/18/1946Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.