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Historical Event on 2/16/1896
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
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| 1/8/1999 | Farah Khan made it a double, adding the National ladies snooker title in Delhi. |
| 1/9/1841 | John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris. |
| 2/13/1994 | Troops moved to Uttar Pradesh to quell caste violence. |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 6/22/1910 | Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died. |
| 5/26/1935 | Swami Mrigendra Channaya, great Social Scientist in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 2/28/1919 | Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born. |
| 9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
| 4/2/1980 | Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party. |
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