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Historical Event on 1/16/1985
Balram Jakhar elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/7/1983 | Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta . |
| 3/31/1994 | U.R. Rao, retiring ISRO Chairman, announces agreement with Russia for supplying 7 cryogenic engines. |
| 12/17/1914 | Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore. |
| 5/21/1996 | M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor. |
| 2/12/1985 | Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people. |
| 11/27/1994 | Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away. |
| 10/30/1990 | Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid to perform 'karseva'. |
| 10/1/1995 | Hastimal Firodia, astrologer and industrialist, died. |
| 5/15/1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 2/28/1884 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, passed away. |
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