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Historical Event on 2/16/1982
Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker and leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1984 | Dilraj Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada. |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
| 6/3/1915 | Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government. |
| 11/17/1994 | North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 8/11/1954 | Madireddy Venkateshwar Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79), was born in Secunderabad. |
| 6/18/1989 | India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces. |
| 7/19/1990 | Planning Commission decides to make changes in the Gadgil formula for central assistance to States in consultation with states. |
| 3/18/1948 | Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
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