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Historical Event on 6/16/1946
C. Rajagopalchari became the Governor of West Bengal (1947) in Interim Government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1959 | Martin Luther King, the US Black leader, arrived in New Delhi. |
| 4/20/1989 | R. S. Pathak, Chief Justice of India, elected to the World Court. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
| 10/17/1817 | Syed Ahmad Khan, great social reformer, educationist, journalist, leader and one of the most eminent builders of modern India, was born in Delhi. |
| 2/6/1887 | Manabendra Nath Roy (his childhood name was Narendranath Bhattacharya), leftist thinker, great Indian politician and philosophist, was born at Arbelia village of 24-Parganas of West Bengal. He was the founder of 'Radical Democratic Party' after quitting Congress during World War II. |
| 12/3/1970 | Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar. |
| 5/17/1857 | Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India. |
| 6/9/1998 | 81 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone. |
| 11/15/1991 | Insurance official Dr. S.L. Khosa freed in Kashmir in exchange for a militant. |
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