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Historical Event on 1/16/1948

Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/29/1966Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous mathematics expert, died.
12/30/1946Jawaharlal Nehru calls on Gandhiji, who says, ""My reason wholly supports my heart"".
3/22/1969The first public sector petrochemical organisation was inaugurated.
4/4/1990Hindi film 'Bagh Bahadur' received the best feature film award of 1989.
5/5/1916Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
6/16/1946Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
10/1/1932Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years.
6/30/1934Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
3/1/1914Minto Gilbert Jhon Alieat, former viceroy of India, passed away.