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Historical Event on 3/16/1993

Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
4/24/1980Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
11/14/1967Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born.
10/14/1991Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died.
6/30/1755Jayappa Shinde who was the son of Ronoji Shinde was murdered.
1/22/1901Nirmal Kumar Bose was born.
1/14/1758Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them.
4/15/1950Acharya Vinoba Bhave requested to the villagers of Panchampalli Telangana, Andhra Pradesh to give 80 acres of land, and with this he had started his 'Bhudan Andolan'.
12/27/1987Vijaypal Singh sets a record for TJ in 16.79s at Trivandrum .
7/4/1999S. Vijayalakshmi won the National women's `A' chess championship with a round to spare in Kozhikode.