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Historical Event on 10/16/1920

B. Sathyaji Rao, cricket Test umpire for 17 tests from 1960-79, was born in Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1998Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
12/16/1922Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle.
8/8/1972Olympics open at Munich (26).
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
5/21/1994The Union Government imposes blanket ban on capitation fee for admission to private professional colleges.
10/23/1992The dissident ministers of Bangarappa government in Karnataka resign
11/27/1976Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away.
5/27/1994Tarktirth Laxmanshastri Joshi, internationally famous omnicient, passed away.
3/12/1995Congress party loses India national election.