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Historical Event on 7/16/1997

Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1863Naval Force East India Comapny was merged with the British Naval Fleet.
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
7/13/1950Nehru asks Stalin and Acheson to restore peace in Korea.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
6/18/1901Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar, Marathi novelist and editor, passed away.
1/2/1967University established at Berhampur in Orrisa State.
8/15/1990India successfully test fires 'Akash', an advanced medium range surface to air missile.
12/12/1925Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat.
3/1/1910The Dalai Lama is welcomed in Darjeeling.