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Historical Event on 9/16/1916

M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/25/1997Justice Jagdish Saran Verma sworn in Chief Justice of India.
2/26/1984Satellite Insat 1-B dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
2/7/2000Kamaluddin Ahmed, former APCC(I) president and four times Congress MP, joins the BJP.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
4/16/1848Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Telegu author and social reformer, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
11/11/1998India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.
8/27/1990The Cabinet Committee on political affairs decides to put a proposal before the Parliament providing five to ten per cent of Central Government jobs reserved for economically weaker sections.
2/26/196634 national leaders charge Indira Gandhi's rule is 'constitutional dictatorship'.
11/13/1908Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born.