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Historical Event on 7/16/1993
Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India.

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3/14/1992	NTR expels Upendra and six others from Telegu Desam Party.
9/8/1953	Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
4/22/1958	Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
12/3/1971	Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
7/20/1680	Chhatrapati Sambhaji was throne.
3/4/2000	Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980.
8/7/1925	Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
6/9/1998	The rupee plunges to an all-time low of Rs. 42.23/25 against the dollar.
11/11/1888	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, freedom fighter, was born in Mecca. He was an outspoken champion of rationalism and progressiveness in all spheres of Indian life.
1/10/1993	Advani, Joshi released on court orders.

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Historical Event on 7/16/1993 Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India.

Historical Event on 7/16/1993
Russia cancels cryogenic rocket deal with India.