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Historical Event on 3/16/1945
Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/11/1992 | Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father. |
| 9/6/1774 | British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conqure Pune. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 2/27/1941 | Paddy Ashton, first leader of Britain's Social and Liberal Democrat Party, was born in New Delhi, India. |
| 6/15/1953 | Internal Air Route Corporation of India was established. |
| 9/11/1911 | Amarnath Lala, right-hand Indian all-rounder of 30s and 40s, was born at Lahore in Pakistan. He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1991. |
| 3/30/1988 | Tamil Nadu beat Railways by an innings and 144 runs to win Ranji Trophy. |
| 4/19/1998 | Kottayam in Kerala becomes the first district in India to complete computerisation of the talluk offices connecting them with the district headquarters. |
| 1/6/1979 | Rohini-200, first monsoon experimental rocket, launched from Thumba. |
| 1/28/1937 | Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born. |
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