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Historical Event on 2/16/1968

Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1914Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati.
8/4/1928Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
12/10/1878Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
8/4/1906Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
3/20/1977General Election (6th) of India ends. First time Indian National Congress Party lost in India.
11/16/1983Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.
9/29/1997IRS-1D, fourth Indian Remote Sensing satellite, successfully launched off by PSLV-CI, the country's first operational polar satellite launch vehicle, from Sriharikota. With this launch, India became a member of the exclusive club of nations capable of launching the heavier class of satellites.
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
1/16/1919Nasikrao Khantadu Tirpude, former Duputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born.