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Historical Event on 3/16/1997

Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/21/1996M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor.
3/17/1882Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern Marathi language, passed away.
12/5/2000Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.
10/6/1779Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born.
2/9/1874Govind Tryambak Darekar, Marathi poet, was born.
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
10/2/1993Prime Minister's employment project started in urban areas.
10/2/1986Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
2/25/1993113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action.
6/16/1893Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar, social worker and industrialist, was born at Athikkadu Thekkur in Tamil Nadu.