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Historical Event on 3/16/1993
Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/7/1928 | Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born. |
| 6/21/1994 | The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group. |
| 1/27/1984 | First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam. |
| 9/9/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan. |
| 2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
| 7/4/1897 | Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 1/18/1950 | Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away. |
| 8/18/1800 | Fort William College was established at Calcutta. |
| 8/29/1923 | Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born. |
| 11/20/1969 | Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur. |
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