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Historical Event on 3/16/1966
Judge Amal Kumar Sarkar became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 29/06/1966.
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| 12/25/1972 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker, eminent litterateur, first Indian Governor General and the founder President of Swatantra Party, passed away. |
| 2/10/1859 | General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny. |
| 12/25/2000 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, launches a Rs.60,000 crore ''Gram Sadak Yojana'' for linking all villages and the ""Antyodaya Anna Scheme'' for providing cheap foodgrains under the TPDS. |
| 5/4/1998 | India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list. |
| 12/25/1919 | Naushad, famous film music director, was born. |
| 9/20/1921 | Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi. |
| 8/6/1999 | Kalpnath Rai (58), former Union Minister, died in New Delhi. |
| 5/21/1999 | A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State. |
| 9/14/1923 | Ram Jethmalani, famous law expert and politician, was born. |
| 8/1/1957 | National Book Trust inaugurated. |
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