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Historical Event on 10/16/1978
Test debut of Kapil Dev, India vs Pakistan, at Faisalabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/1/1958 | Metric System of weights was introduced in India. |
| 10/24/2000 | Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi. |
| 1/11/1975 | Oil struck in third Bombay High rig. |
| 3/7/1647 | Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died. |
| 2/28/1936 | Kamla Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, passed away near Lausanne in Switzerland. |
| 5/28/1965 | Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400. |
| 10/10/1962 | Indies assault up Chinese positions in north India attack |
| 9/19/1962 | Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War. |
| 1/20/1949 | Junagarh formally merged with Saurashtra. |
| 10/20/1905 | Mohansing Mahir, famous modern Punjabi poet, was born. |
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