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Historical Event on 10/16/1968
Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
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| 10/14/1985 | Assam Ganparishad established. |
| 6/6/1867 | Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot. |
| 11/1/1967 | Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory. |
| 8/29/1998 | Prasar Bharti ordinance promulgated. |
| 12/7/1979 | Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway. |
| 1/21/1997 | Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta. |
| 7/29/1891 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta. |
| 3/12/1972 | Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats. |
| 10/1/1886 | Baluchisthan became a part of India. |
| 5/19/1954 | The Govt. of India constituted a National Film Board. |
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