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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 6/16/1950 |
Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 6/16/1859 |
Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away. |
| 6/16/1893 |
Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu. |
| 6/16/1920 |
Hemant Chaudhary, famous singer and music director, was born. |
| 6/16/1925 |
Chittaranjan Das, great freedom fighter, revolutionary, orator, poet, journalist and lawyer, died. |
| 6/16/1934 |
M. Muthuraman, noted Hindi writer and professor, was born at Dindigul in Madurai (Tamil Nadu). |
| 6/16/1946 |
Britain invites Indian leaders to set up an interim govt at London. |
| 6/16/1946 |
C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government. |
| 6/16/1946 |
Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government. |
| 6/16/1950 |
Mithun Chakravorty, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 6/16/1951 |
Nehru opponents founded People's party at New Delhi. |
| 6/16/1990 |
Bombay gets 42 cm rainfall, the century's highest. The previous high of 41 cm was recorded on 18, 1986. |
| 6/16/1990 |
GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 6/16/1992 |
P. D. Dhhavle, former editor of daily newspaper `Maharashtra', passed away. |
| 6/16/1993 |
Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded. |
| 6/16/1997 |
P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 6/16/1997 |
K. R. Narayanan, Vice-President, is the joint candidate of Congress(I) and United Front for Presidentship in July 14 election. |
| 6/16/1998 |
Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/8/1915 | Geeta Rahasya', written by Lokmanya Tilak, published. |
| 7/22/1987 | A.G. Kripal Singh, 14 Tests for India and one century on debut, passed away. |
| 10/17/1859 | Keshavlal Harshrai Dhruv, researcher and translator, was born. |
| 10/20/1947 | First battle between India and Pakistan. |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 8/21/1990 | Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha . |
| 5/4/1799 | Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle against 5,000 British soldiers who stormed and razed his capital, Seringapatanam. |
| 8/10/1755 | Narayanrao Peshwa was born. |
| 2/24/1995 | A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act. |
| 11/5/1930 | Arjun Singh, leader of Madhya Pradesh, was born. |
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