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Historical Event on 8/16/1980

Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1903Bhalchandra Digambar Garware, famous industrailist, was born.
3/22/1709It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
3/26/1993Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao.
4/27/1994Supreme Court strikes down section 309 of the Indian Penal Code(which makes suicide a punishable offence)- violative of Article 21.
2/10/1979Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
9/24/193119 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir.
11/8/1965British Indian Ocean Territory formed.
6/15/1960Bardwan University was established in West Bengal.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.