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Historical Event on 10/16/2000
Rest of India wins the Irani Trophy cricket tournament. Murali Karthik scalps nine for 70, the best figures by a bowler in 38 Irani cup matches.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/28/1895 | Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born. |
| 11/20/1930 | With all the pageantry of the British Empire, a conference of Indian and British leaders had been convened in London to discuss dominion status for India. Surrounded by Maharajahs in turbans, King George V convened the round table conference in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Notably absent was Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the nationalist movement. The conference saw a breakdown of the Indian caste system as Brahmins dealt with spokesmen for ""untouchable |
| 3/12/1993 | Powerful bomb blasts at twelve various places in Mumbai takes 317 lives. |
| 1/25/1957 | Kashmir becomes Indian state. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 8/10/1989 | Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha. |
| 7/13/1913 | Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar . |
| 2/23/1952 | Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha. |
| 6/18/1978 | The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened. |
| 9/15/1861 | Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family. |
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