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Historical Event on 7/16/1996
The four basin states of Narmada valley - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra - reach agreement to raise the height of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat to 436' after which hydrological studies will be done for 5 years to decide whether the height should be raised to the awarded 455'.

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6/5/1995	Manmohan Singh re-elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam.
9/9/1896	Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad', freedom fighter, social worker and Padamshree awardee, was born in Narwal village near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
3/17/1991	The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
8/10/1992	Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam.
11/27/1999	Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor.
8/26/1927	Second Radio Centre was started in Calcutta.
8/7/1925	Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
5/28/1907	Purohit Dingambar Vinayak (Nanasaheb), leader in Maharashtra, was born.
4/23/1987	Supreme Court in a judgement confers Hindu widows absolute ownership of property under Hindu Succession Act 1956.
1/1/1924	Krishna Mohan Jha, famous educationist, was born at Pokharia near Katihar (Purnea).

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