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Historical Event on 10/16/1896
Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/28/1997 | Finance Minister P. Chidambaram presents an action-packed budget for 1997-98. |
| 8/29/1991 | Second operational Indian Remote Sensing satellite (IRS-1B) launched by a Russian launch vehicle, Vostok. It is still in service. |
| 3/23/1910 | Dr. Ram Manohar Hiralal Lohia also known as ""Dauntless Dr. Lohia"", freedom fighter and socialist leader, was born at Akbarpur, district Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. He had founded Praja Socialist Party in 1952. |
| 2/14/1932 | Madhubala (Mumtaj Begam), film actress, was born. |
| 3/26/1942 | Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi. |
| 10/17/1999 | Indian men bagged bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang. |
| 8/3/1994 | The first successful heart transplant operation was performed at the All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, by a team of doctors led by Prof. P. Venugopal (25-2-96). |
| 10/6/1893 | Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source. |
| 1/29/1999 | Alok Kumar of Punjab defeated Devendra Joshi of Maharashtra at the IIT complex at New Delhi. |
| 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. |
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