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Historical Event on 1/16/1948
Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/30/1987 | Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 12/25/1879 | Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born. |
| 8/30/1990 | Parliament unanimously passes the Prasar Bharati Bill. |
| 1/25/1930 | Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP. |
| 5/20/1932 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc. |
| 6/23/1761 | Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb), third peshwa, died at Pune, after losing in the Third Battle of Panipat on 12 June. |
| 2/7/1997 | Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''. |
| 7/19/1998 | Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 10/19/1875 | The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic. |
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