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Historical Event on 5/16/1995

Government of India decides not to extend the validity of TADA Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/25/1980Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous Urdu poet, died.
12/4/1999A batch of 1,690 Indian soldiers leave for Sierra Leone to join the U.N. Mission to implement the peace accord.
4/21/1996Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag.
3/23/1919Subhadra Joshi, freedom fighter, was born. She took active participation in Salt and non cooperation movement. She also motivated the freedom movement through her newspaper ""Hamara Sangram"".
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
5/1/1973All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.
4/27/1920Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born.
8/28/1667Sardar Jay Singh I, the famous king- Mirza Raja, a ruler of the kingdom of Amber (later called Jaipur) also in Aurangzeb's kingdom, passed away at Barhanpur.
12/15/1980Hema Chengkalath, female Soccer(Football) player, was born in Calgary, Canada.
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.