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Historical Event on 8/16/1991

Indian Airliner Boeing 737 crashes in Manipur's Churachandpur district killing all 69 aboard.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
2/2/1921Mukundrao Kirloskar was born.
3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
3/19/1962Raja Kelkar Museum, which belonged to Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, was opened for the people.
5/7/1958Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha.
11/5/1892John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford.
10/11/1991Meghalaya placed under President's rule.
5/18/1985Dr. P. C. Alexander appointed High Commissioner in Britain.
10/19/1910Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.