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Historical Event on 3/16/1901

Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
6/24/1946Gandhiji meets Cabinet Mission.
11/5/1956University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
5/25/1996Kathapurushan' wins best film national award.
7/21/1963Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.
10/26/1943Cholera epidemic killed 2,155 people in the third week of October at Calcutta.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
6/23/1997Acharya Tulsi, the founder of Terapanthi sector in Jainism, died. (20-10-98).
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
3/29/1979Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.