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Historical Event on 4/16/1848
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Telegu author and social reformer, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1645 | Noorjahan Begum passed away. |
| 1/5/1988 | India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind. |
| 10/9/1877 | Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa. |
| 9/12/1998 | Bihar flood toll mounts to 320. |
| 9/2/1960 | Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away. |
| 5/18/1933 | Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m. |
| 6/11/2000 | 27 army personnel die after the bus carrying them plunges into a gorge at a spot 80 km from Jammu. |
| 9/4/1990 | An all-party meeting refuses to endorse the decision to implement Mandal Commission Report according to which 27\% jobs are reserved for backward communities. |
| 5/9/1998 | Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai. |
| 10/10/2000 | The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo. |
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