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Historical Event on 8/16/1932
Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/15/1948 | Rajah Annamalai Chettiar, famous musician, social worker and Governor of the Imperial Bank of India, passed away. |
| 1/17/1987 | Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar. |
| 11/9/1948 | Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 5/7/2000 | Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case. |
| 1/18/1997 | Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins. |
| 3/10/1997 | Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva. |
| 12/1/1894 | Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born. |
| 11/29/1869 | Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra. |
| 5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
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