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Historical Event on 8/16/1922
Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/19/1996 | Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. |
| 5/24/1992 | D. R. Bhagwat, veteran journalist, passed away. |
| 4/30/1909 | R. Shankar, politician, journalist and former Chief Minister of Kerala, was born. |
| 4/14/1962 | Sir Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya, father of modern engineering, passed away at the age of 102. He was receipent of ""Bharat Ratna"" Award. |
| 12/21/1998 | The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen. |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 4/3/1932 | Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan. |
| 6/19/1901 | Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences. |
| 11/11/1980 | The Hindustan Times says the 'British have reverted to what they basically are & a small, little people with small, little minds inhabiting a small, little island in the Atlantic.' |
| 1/31/1992 | LTTE Supremo, V. Prabhakaran, declared offender in Rajiv Gandhi murder case and ordered to surrender by a Madras court. |
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