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Historical Event on 1/16/1992
Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1977 | Ban on RSS and 26 other organisations lifted. |
| 12/24/1932 | The third and last Round Table conference on India ends. It was was held in London. |
| 7/22/1999 | J. H. Patel, Karnataka Chief Minister, recommends dissolution of the Assembly and the Governor Khurshid Alam Khan accepts it. Earlier Mr. Patel drops eight Ministers including the Deputy Chief Minister Siddharamiah. |
| 9/26/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966. |
| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
| 10/20/1920 | Censor Board, after examining the film 'Ahilya Uddhar' on October 20, started mentioning the number of reels as well as the length in feet on the Censor Certificate. The film had already been released earlier on August 23, 1919. |
| 1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
| 8/12/1928 | The Olympic Games hosted by Amsterdam fully realized Pierre de Coubertin's vision: 'the nations of the world in friendly competition'. After a succession of Olympics dominated by North America and Western Europe, Amsterdam welcomed more than 3,000 competitors. |
| 2/23/1997 | Successful test firing of the 250-km version of the Prithvi missile. |
| 2/11/1861 | Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal. |
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