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Historical Event on 11/16/1983
Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/15/1983 | Farukh Abdul Latif, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 3/15/1908 | Police shoot four people in rioting. |
| 6/24/1908 | Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. |
| 7/10/1998 | India says it wont sign the CTBT unconditionally and invites Pakistan to join in disarmament efforts. |
| 3/27/1977 | N. Sanjeeva Reddy elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. |
| 12/5/1998 | Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
| 6/18/1991 | Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 7/25/1987 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992. |
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