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Historical Event on 2/16/1980
The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/15/1949 | Process of the integration of the Indian State was completed when the last three states - Tripura, Manipur and Banaras were merged. |
| 1/2/2000 | Surya Sekar Ganguly (Goodricke National Academy) wins the Junior National chess championship in Sivakasi. |
| 4/23/1968 | Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away. |
| 7/10/1949 | Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980). |
| 1/31/1983 | The first floating Dry Dock was launched at Howrah. |
| 12/3/1993 | Bahadur Prasad wins silver in 1500 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila. |
| 7/21/1975 | Hindi Post Guards was established by Government. |
| 5/24/1903 | Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 10/13/1999 | No change in portfolios of Advani, Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh and Fernandes. |
| 10/13/1999 | Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of Protuguese India, passed away in a battle. |
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