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Historical Event on 3/16/1997

The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/29/1976Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
5/22/1961Jnanpeeth Award was instituted and the first award was given in 1965. This award is given for the best creative literary writing by any Indian citizen in any of the languages included in the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The award carries a cash price of Rs 2.5 lakh, a citation and a bronze momento.
8/22/1984R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
9/8/1991Hostage ONGC engineer T.S. Raju and mediator Bipul Mahanta, an Amnesty International member, killed by ULFA in Assam.
7/23/1991Premdatt Paliwal, president of All India Forward Block, died.
3/31/1926Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, who made research in History, passed away.
4/18/1966Kuwalyanand Swami (Jagannath Ganesh Gune), great Physical Training and Yoga expert, passed away.
4/3/1984Soyuz T-11 carried three cosmonauts along with the first Indian Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma to Salyut 7.