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Historical Event on 6/16/1893

Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.

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2/25/1992Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares.
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2/1/1917Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.