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Historical Event on 4/16/1980

Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/5/1961Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star, was born. He was also the winner of Junior Wimbledon 1979.
11/11/1991Supreme Court declares the Anti-Defection Law as constitutional but holds that decisions of Presiding Officers under the law could be subjected to judicial review.
1/31/1958First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
12/28/1981Madras-Penang undersea cable commissioned.
10/13/1999Janata Dal (United) snap ties with the BJP in Karnataka
3/29/1942Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
5/6/1861Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra.
1/10/1997The second leg of the Indian Satellite circuit held in Ahmedabad.
2/4/1948Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur.