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Historical Event on 7/16/1991
Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1878 | Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated. |
| 4/2/2000 | Guru Granth Sahib is a juristic person and can hold property, says the apex court in a judgment of ''far-reaching consequences and great significance''. |
| 9/3/1767 | Colonel Smith was defeated in the battle of Changama that took place between the combined forces of Nizam and Hyder Ali and the British army. This was the first war of Mysore. The British concluded a humiliating peace with Hyder Ali of Mysore. |
| 3/31/1942 | During the 2nd World War, Japan was heavily successful in Burma and Andaman which posted a danger to the Indian Security. |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
| 8/3/1991 | About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India. |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 5/13/1857 | Sir Ronald Ross, bacteriologist, member of Indian Medical service, Nobel awardee and editor of 'Science Progress', was born at Almora, UP. |
| 2/24/1936 | Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
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