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Historical Event on 3/16/1998

Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1999India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final.
2/27/1996Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
6/5/1659Dara Shukoh celebrated his coronation at Deorai after the final defeat.
7/21/1962Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
7/4/1986Sunil Gavaskar celebrated his 115th Test in cricket at Edgbaston.
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.
8/19/1927Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa.
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
3/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98).