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Historical Event on 3/16/1998
Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/17/1950 | Govt. grants diplomatic recognition to Israel. |
| 5/4/1832 | Darpan', a fortnightly magazine started publishing as a weekly. |
| 8/10/1989 | Panchayatraj' and 'Nagarpalika' bills were passed in Parliament's Lok Sabha. |
| 4/11/1992 | Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award. |
| 11/15/1937 | Jayshankar Prasad, famous Hindi writer, died. His works include the epic (mahakavya) ""Kamayanee"" and plays ""Chandra Gupt"" and ""Ska |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 12/13/2000 | Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief. |
| 10/23/1999 | A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst. |
| 3/22/1906 | Bhagwant Bhikaji Samant, educationalist, was born. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
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