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Historical Event on 3/16/1995

World's best 7th wkt stand of 461 runs by Bhupinder Singh Jr. & P. Dharmani.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/10/1978Rohini Khadilkar, fifteen years old, became the first woman to win the national chess championship. Presently, she is the editor of a leading Marathi newspaper of Mumbai 'Nava Kaal'.
12/13/1999Dr. V. Kurien gets the Paulos Mar Gregorius Award 1999.
3/14/1997Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan.
6/17/1903Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born.
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
4/26/1990V. R. P. Menon, an Air Force Engineer, broke the world record in Chandigargh.
9/24/1932Poona Pact' was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. This historical agreement allowed increased representation for untouchables. Also, Gandhi ended his fast.
9/3/1995Ram Jethmalani (lawyer and MP) launches a new party, Bharatiya Lok Panchayat, to rid the country of its evils.
8/15/1947Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first Indian Prime Minister of free India.
10/16/1999Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang