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Historical Event on 1/16/1948

Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1997Deshabhimani daily, official organ of CPI (M), launches its 5th edition from Kottayam, Kerala.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
3/25/1998Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99.
1/2/1973General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
9/22/2000Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
7/27/1887Sardar Davar Tehmuras Kavasji, social worker and lawyer, was born.
5/19/1979Pandit Hajari Prasad Dwivedi passed away.
2/2/1959Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party.
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.