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Historical Event on 8/16/1923
Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/17/2000 | V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case. |
| 12/12/1996 | India and Bangladesh arrive at a settlement to share Ganga water. |
| 10/21/1996 | Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India. |
| 9/13/1997 | India drubs Maldives in SAFF football final in Kathmandu. |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 9/26/1919 | Rotary Club's first Indian meeting was held. |
| 8/8/1940 | Dilip Narayan Sardesai, cricketer (high scoring Indian batsman of sixties), was born in Margao, Goa. He has received Arjun Award (1970). |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 12/15/1894 | Saraswatibai, famous singer and classical music expert, was born. |
| 1/19/1987 | Narain Dutt Ojha made some sort of a record at the residence of the Chief Justice of India when he was sworn in as a Judge of Supreme Court at 10.00 p.m. |
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