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Historical Event on 4/16/1801
Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1990 | J&K Assembly dissolved. |
| 6/23/1980 | Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I). |
| 2/3/1995 | The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, notified after 7 months of Presidential assent, becomes enforceable. |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 1/7/1987 | Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket. At 28, he was the youngest cricketer to accomplish this feat. |
| 3/12/1992 | Centenary celebrations held at Kasturba Hospital for Infections diseases. (CIVIC). |
| 6/28/1975 | Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions. |
| 9/10/1924 | K.T. Gopalkrishnan, famous Hindi writer, was born at Azhicode. |
| 4/9/1783 | Tipu Sultan drives out English from Bednoor, India. |
| 1/14/1998 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to M. S. Subbualakshmi (b 1916). |
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