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Historical Event on 9/16/1973

Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/2000P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad.
2/12/1882Satyendranath Dutt, famous Bengali poet, was born.
1/31/1996Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
4/4/1990MI-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35, thus becoming a dedicated Attack Helicopter unit of the IAF.
8/15/1947Brigadier Thakur Mahadeo Singh was the first Indian Commandant. He was the DSO of Indian Militery Academy.
3/17/1994Wali Mohammad Itto, former Speaker of J&K Assembly shot dead by militants.
2/22/1845Serampore of Hooghly district and Balasore cities from Dutch purchased East Indian Company.
4/12/1871Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, editor in modern era and dictionary creator, was born.
3/3/1939Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.