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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
2/2/1982Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
10/18/1996Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi to be the venue for the trial of former PM Rao.
3/1/1990JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.
1/8/2000Abhin Shyam Gupta and B.R. Meenakshi win the NSCI Grand Prix all India badminton tournament in Mumbai.
5/1/1998India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
1/15/1784Sir William Jones, Judge and linguist, and Sir Warren Hastings established the Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta. This was the first scholastic institution.
3/27/1942Gandhiji meets Sir Stafford Cripps in New Delhi; later declares Cripps proposals to be a ""post-dated cheque"".
3/22/1971Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away.
5/13/1952Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry.
12/21/1990Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively.