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Historical Event on 1/16/1990
Dr. R.R. Diwakar, Gandhian and former Union Minister, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/18/1927 | Ramesh Vithaldas Divecha, cricketer (11 wickets for India in early 50's), was born in Bombay. |
| 9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
| 10/26/1961 | Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 8/28/1906 | Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born. |
| 2/22/1905 | Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind). |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 10/14/1999 | Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
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