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Historical Event on 8/16/1965
Indian troops cross Kashmir line, seizes two Pakistani outposts.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1911 | Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born. |
| 3/6/1947 | Churchill opposes troop withdrawal from India at London. |
| 11/15/1949 | Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder. |
| 2/6/1952 | George VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom, died of lung cancer at the age of 56 (succeeded by daughter, Elizabeth II). In 1947, His title of Emperor of India was deleted. |
| 10/31/1963 | Krishna Menon, resigned from the post of Defence Minister of India, due to Chinese attack. |
| 1/25/1989 | Motilal Vora sworn in as CM of Madhya Pradesh. |
| 10/19/1910 | Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983. |
| 6/18/1918 | A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away. |
| 2/21/1992 | Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections. |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
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