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Historical Event on 8/16/1997

Krishan Kant, Andhra Pradesh's Governor, elected as the Vice President of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
10/31/1999Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award.
8/20/1974Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed elected President of India with B. D. Jatti as Vice President.
6/13/2000Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, announces a one-time settlement of outstanding loans below Rs. 10 crores in a move aimed at ridding the public sector banks of Rs. 51,000 crores of bad loans.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
10/11/1991BJP government in U.P. acquires the disputed Ayodhya land.
8/16/1980Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.
11/15/1993IA Airbus with 272 on board forcelands on a paddy field near Tirupati; all passengers safe.
10/9/1976International Dialing Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London.