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Historical Event on 10/16/1945
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/12/1997 | India Seniors lift Challenger Trophy cricket title. |
| 6/24/1901 | John Thottam (Sir Marry Benigna C.D.) Marry, great poetess and teacher, was born in Elangi village at Kerala. |
| 2/7/1993 | Medium-range surface to surface missile, 'Prithvi' successfully launched for the 10th time. |
| 10/17/1970 | Anil Radhakrishna Kumble, cricketer (great Indian leg spinner since 1990), was born in Bangalore. |
| 7/6/1995 | Five foreign tourists trekking in Kashmir 10 km uphill from Pahalgam were abducted by militants. |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 7/16/1909 | Aruna Asaf Ali, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Kalka in Haryana. |
| 2/8/1989 | Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
| 5/14/1953 | Y. N. Sukthankar was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1957. |
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