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Historical Event on 10/16/1936
35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1853 | Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born. |
| 12/10/1936 | Duke of York succeeds King Edward as King George VI. |
| 6/18/1946 | First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese. |
| 12/13/1978 | Sayyed Avid Husain, litterateur and Padmabhushan awardee, 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. |
| 6/20/1987 | Dr. Salim Ali, internationally renowned expert of birds, died at Bombay. |
| 10/4/1857 | Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat. |
| 8/1/1922 | Ratilal Sankalchand Nayak, educationist and writer, was born at Kadi, Gujarat . |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 9/30/1900 | Mohommad Ali Chhagla, former central minister, was born. |
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