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Historical Event on 11/16/1887
Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born.
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| 1/6/1932 | Kamleshwar, famous Hindi writer, was born. |
| 6/30/1995 | CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan. |
| 5/23/1923 | Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52), was born in Calcutta. |
| 1/30/1999 | Gopinath Bordoloi was awarded the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, The Highest Civilian Award in India. 1999. |
| 3/2/1996 | Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 2/26/1901 | The notes of Rs twenty denomination were issued with two issuing circles. These notes had four numeric denominations. |
| 5/28/1925 | Awadh Kishore Narain, educationist, was born. |
| 2/17/1968 | Dr. Kailas Nath Katju, freedom fighter, politician, leader, Governor of Orissa and West Bengal, passed away. |
| 4/25/2000 | The Supreme Court clears the decks for continuing the trial against AIADMK leader Jayalalitha in the controversial ''TANSI land deal case'' by ''erasing'' the Madras High Court judgment discharging her from the case. |
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