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Historical Event on 3/16/1977

Sixth General Election of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
9/5/1846Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died.
9/11/1824Shivling Surge died at Alpayu.
10/24/1657Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
8/26/1997Commander of Uri sector Brigadier Jasbir Singh Lidder and another senior army officer have a narrow escape as Pakistani troops fire on their cavalcade at Chakori near LOC in J&K.
9/21/1994Ramkrishna Bajaj, freedom fighter and veteran industrialist, passed away.
2/18/199247 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede.
7/5/1984Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore.
6/12/1972D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died.
7/25/2000P.T. Usha,Star Indian athlete, announces retirement from International athletics at a press conference in New Delhi.