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Historical Event on 4/16/1962

Third Lok Sabha constituted after the third general election in India. J. L. Nehru forms the third Congress ministry.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1912Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
6/2/1975India's First Spunge Iron project inaugurated at Vijaywada.
2/22/1993Sudhakarrao Naik, Mahrashtra CM, resigns in the wake of party dissidence.
1/4/1967Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. began delivery of the MIG aircraft.
10/6/1983Punjab Government was dismissed to halt religious and political violence by Indira Gandhi, who imposed President's rule in the state.
8/14/1998The Government transferred Revenue Secretary N. K. Singh and Finance Secretary Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
4/3/1966First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus.
1/1/1949A ceasefire eventually came into force. Under UN supervision, a negotiated Cease Fire Line was drawn up on an actual holding basis pending future settlements. This meandering, and at places militarily illogical line, ran some 700 kilometres from Chhamb in the South to a map reference point NJ 9842 in Ladakh in the North. The fighting was to continue for 15 months, with heavy RIAF involvement throughout, but despite being continuously on an operational footing throughout this period, the re-organisation and modernisation of the service continued unabated.
8/18/1956Sandeep Madhusudan Patil, great Indian batsman, was born in Bombay.