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Historical Event on 3/16/1912

Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/9/1898Explosive Department of India was established at Nagpur. This is presently under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.
5/21/1992Manohar J.Pherwani, 58, Chairman of the National Housing Bank, died.
11/6/1993First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly.
3/4/1858J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
3/2/1997Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, IMF, congratulates India on its pursuit of steady and higher economic growth.
10/20/1774New Regulating Act was introduced which abolished the East India Company Government and a new Government was formed.
1/28/1902Gandhiji left for Rangoon visit. Stays for a month with Gokhale at Calcutta. Returns to Rajkot and settles down to practise.
5/28/1992Indo-US naval exercises begin.
3/29/1869Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.