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Historical Event on 2/16/1968

Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/10/1964Bangalore University was established in Karnataka.
8/25/1965Indian troops cross the Kashmir ceasefire line pursuing Pakistani infiltrators.
12/6/1962India closes its consulates in Communist China.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
11/2/1950India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
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.
3/3/1934Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur.
5/27/1957Copyright Act was passed.
6/2/2000Justice A. M. Ahmadi, former Chief Justice of India, appointed Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award.