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Historical Event on 8/16/1991
C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1987 | B. Shankaranand appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the Bofors gun deal. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
| 2/25/1998 | Tendulkar's first first-class 204* for Mumbai vs Australia. |
| 11/7/1936 | Chandrakant Devtale, famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 10/10/1909 | Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 1/12/1924 | Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Pune. |
| 4/6/1942 | During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam. |
| 5/13/1953 | The first Indian Navy air station INS Garuda was commissioned at Venduruthy, the naval base in Cochin. |
| 11/30/1909 | Ramesh Chandra died. |
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