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Historical Event on 3/16/1910
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi sr, England & India), was born in Pataudi, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/30/1971 | Indian Airline's Fokker Friendship aircraft in India was hijacked to Lahore. |
| 5/6/1922 | Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer of Kolhapur, passed away at Bombay. He was 48. |
| 2/22/1996 | Madanlal Khurana, Delhi CM, resigns (Hawala scandal). |
| 4/23/1991 | Major parties agree to have polls in Punjab. |
| 11/11/2000 | Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985. |
| 8/20/1985 | Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, a ragi, reluctant politician and Sikh leader, died. He was shot by Sikh extremists at Sherpur. |
| 1/1/1949 | A 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. |
| 1/16/1945 | Kabir Bedi, famous Hindi and foreign actor (Thief of Baghdad, Terminal Entry), was born. |
| 12/25/1880 | Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, a nationalist Muslim leader, politician and journalist, was born at Yusufpur in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 12/16/2000 | Kalyan Banerjee becomes the first Indian to head the Rotary Foundation, one of the richest bodies of the Rotary International. |
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