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Historical Event on 1/16/1945

Kabir Bedi, famous Hindi and foreign actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry), was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/31/1956Pandit Ravishankar Shukla, former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, lawyer, politician and social worker, died at the age of 80.
8/5/1999Nisha Millet became the first Indian swimmer to receive the International Olympic Committee's Solidarity Scholarship, given to sportspersons with outstanding track record and possessing Olympic potential.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
9/28/1940Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, passed away. He was also known as ""The Chhattisgarh Gandhi"".
11/6/1937Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
4/8/1774Narayan Rao's posthumous son, Madhav Rao, was seen as a challenge to Raghunath Rao only when he was 10 days old.
7/24/1991Industrial licensing scrapped.
4/8/1953Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away.
1/20/1988Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .