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Historical Event on 10/16/1936

35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
11/19/1985Lall Singh, cricketer (one Test for India 1932), passed away.
11/29/1952First international organization for birth control founded in Bombay.
12/11/1994H.D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader, assumes office as CM of Karnataka.
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.
1/3/1978Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win.
9/11/1893Swami Vivekananda represented Hinduism at Chicago's Parliament of the World's Religions, the first ever inter-faith gathering, dramatically enlightening Western opinion to the depth of Hindu philosophy and culture. He spoke for the first time in Chicago.
3/1/1997Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.