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Historical Event on 3/16/1977

Sixth General Election of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1996Maharashta govt. announces decision to revive Sri Krishna Commission set up to probe the 1993 Mumbai riots.
4/15/1962S. S. Khera was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 18-11-1964.
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
2/8/1943Subhashchandra Bose started his journey to Japan from Kiel along with his secretary Major Abid Hassan in a submarine.
6/24/1897Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
6/14/1929Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
4/25/1906Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born.
2/17/1992S. V. Sheshadri, sports journalist, passed away.
1/11/1960Pakistan and India agree on disputed boundary between Punjab and W. at Pakistan.