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Historical Event on 11/16/1962

Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans, alias Bal Gandharva, went into a coma in Bombay and never regained his consciousness.
3/31/1935374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.
3/9/1961Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
9/4/1888Mahatma Gandhi left for London, England to study Law.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
6/15/1948Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away.
12/11/1994H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.