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Historical Event on 1/16/1997

Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/20/1953India opens $ 140 mil. power system modeled after TVA.
2/12/1990Assembly election in Manipur.
11/2/1971Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives.
10/28/1996Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) spills into Western UP from Delhi.
7/6/1995Five foreign tourists trekking in Kashmir 10 km uphill from Pahalgam were abducted by militants.
3/20/1926For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London.
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
2/9/1929Abdul Rehman Abdul Gafur Antule, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and Central Minister for Health, was born.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India.
9/16/1997General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.