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Historical Event on 8/16/1991
Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/14/1968 | Week-long flood death toll reaches 1,000. |
| 9/1/1896 | Bhaktivedanta Swami, litterateur and social worker, was born in Calcutta. |
| 8/26/2000 | Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai. |
| 2/10/1979 | Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 6/14/1880 | Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born. |
| 3/7/1942 | Umesh Narayan Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68), was born in Alibaug, Maharashtra. |
| 4/29/1947 | Abolition of ""untouchability"". |
| 3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
| 12/6/1995 | Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away. |
| 4/16/1918 | Lalita Pawar, famous actress of Indian film industry, was born. |
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