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Historical Event on 9/16/1990
Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1848 | Satara kingdom came to end. |
| 1/21/1956 | Strikes and demonstrations held in Bihar and Orissa in protest of the government's intention to revise state boundaries. |
| 8/1/1958 | Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership given to Acharya Bhave. |
| 4/20/1914 | Gopinath Mahanti, famous Oriya novelist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born. |
| 3/3/1839 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 6/11/1995 | PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France. |
| 6/2/1991 | Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam. |
| 6/2/1991 | Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore. |
| 2/24/1997 | Charles Shobhaj, the notorious murder suspect, to be deported to France after 20 years in Tihar jail. |
| 6/23/1997 | Acharya Tulsi, the founder of Terapanthi sector in Jainism, died. (20-10-98). |
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