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Historical Event on 8/16/1996
CBI raids house of former minister Sukh Ram and finds cash and jewellery to the tune of Rs. 3 crore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1992 | Arjun Singh, Pawar, Antony win CWC polls. |
| 3/12/1972 | Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats. |
| 1/7/1928 | Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born. |
| 1/26/1995 | Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured. |
| 10/2/1911 | Ambat Menon, great educationist, was born at Chittore, Kerala . |
| 3/4/1990 | V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue. |
| 1/20/2000 | J&K accepts the report of the State Autonomy committee tabled in the Assembly last year. |
| 7/20/1982 | Mira Behn (90), disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. |
| 12/25/1889 | Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P. |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
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