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Historical Event on 2/16/1982

Jawaharlal Nehru was staged first time in Calcutta Invitation International Gold Cup Football Tournament.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1925Harisingh Gogumal Kishanchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52), was born in Karachi.
12/22/1887Srinivas Ramanujam, India's greatest mathematician, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.
3/6/1997Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.
12/1/1989V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister.
7/13/1660Baji Prabhu Deshpande, one of the warriors in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's kingdom, died.
4/18/1916Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away.
5/25/1937Munshi Ajmeri passed away.
7/19/1965Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away.
9/9/1947Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston.
1/21/1963Acharaya Shivpujan Sahai, famous Hindi writer, poet and novelist, died. He was editor of Hindi journals like ""Marwari Sudhar"", ""Samanwaya"", ""Adarsh"" etc. He wrote 400 short stories and 67 biographies. His novel ""Dehati Dunia"" is acclaimed as first regional novel in Hindi.