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Historical Event on 2/16/1986
The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/8/1925 | Mohan Rakesh, veteran Hindi playright, was born. His noted books are ""Aadhe Adhure"" and ""Aashaad Ka Ek Din"". |
| 4/15/1927 | Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi, was born. |
| 5/16/1926 | Manik Varma, famous singer, was born. |
| 5/1/1998 | The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 6/24/1990 | President R. Venkataraman issues notification formally constituting an Inter-State Council. |
| 6/25/1932 | India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England. |
| 1/28/1853 | Jose Marti, great author and politician, was born at Cuba. |
| 5/23/1997 | The body of controversial former chief of Tarn Taran district police Ajit Singh Sandhu is recovered from rail tracks near Bhakharpur About 30 km from Chandigarh. |
| 12/5/2000 | Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'. |
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