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Historical Event on 9/16/1996
First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 5/26/1957 | Janta Insurance Scheme was inaugurated in Bombay. |
| 2/9/2000 | The Madras High Court suspends the one-year jail sentence passed by a Special Court against the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, in the 'Pleasant Stay Hotel Case'. |
| 5/9/1992 | Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 1/15/1898 | Nanasaheb Ramji Tawde, educationist and scientist, was born at Taluq Malvan, Maharashtra. |
| 3/2/1952 | Sindri Fertilizer Factory, Bihar, formally inaugurated by Nehru. It was the first Government owned company. |
| 1/1/1880 | Money order system was introduced. |
| 12/22/1975 | Vishnupant Purshottam Bhagwat, editor, publisher and printer of monthly magzine ""Satyakatha"", d |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
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