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Historical Event on 8/16/1901

Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/30/1659Aurangzeb plotted the death of his brother Dara Shikoh and beheaded him. He was buried in a vault under the dome of Humayun's tomb.
10/5/1991Ramnath Goenka, journalist and founder chairman of the Indian Express Newspapers Group, died at the age of 87 years.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
5/13/1791Lord Cornwallis retreated back to Madras after the battle of Arikera.
2/19/1949Mass arrests of communists in India.
9/22/2000Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
11/22/1997Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad.
4/10/1997Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
12/28/1885Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee.