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Historical Event on 2/16/1927
Rail service started between India and Nepal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/16/1990 | GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 3/13/1997 | H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express. |
| 7/12/1998 | India will not reverse the nuclear programme, declared Mr. Vajpayee. |
| 10/20/1963 | Navjot Singh Bhagwantsingh Sidhu, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Patiala. |
| 9/6/1972 | Allauddin Khan, famous Sarod player, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries. |
| 9/24/1932 | Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for ""Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot"". |
| 9/24/1932 | Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat. |
| 8/27/1994 | Indian soldiers and Muslim militants clash in Kashmir. |
| 9/25/1857 | Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins. |
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