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Historical Event on 6/16/1990

GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/17/1970Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/01/1971.
12/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi was sworn is as the 6th Prime Minister of India. He succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi. He became the Prime Minister of India for a second time and first time after elections.
3/10/1954The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.
4/24/1932450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress.
2/22/1958Maulana Abul Kalam Azad passed away in New Delhi, India. He was a great leader, great orator, revolutionary and fighter for national freedom. Some of his works which are the masterpieces of the Urdu language are ""Ghubari-Khatir"" and Tadhkirah"". He was Minister of Education in the first Indian Government.
10/3/1996Second phase of UP polling.
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
5/17/1991Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away.
12/20/1957Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival.
11/9/1960Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.