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Historical Event on 1/16/1992

For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
2/24/1867Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.
2/24/1957General Election ( 2nd) of India begins.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
11/29/1869Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.
7/18/1909Vishnu Dey, Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Bengali poet, was born.
8/16/2000Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure.
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.