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Historical Event on 2/16/1982
Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker and leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1977 | Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled. |
| 1/6/1989 | Lord Sudhindra Prasanna Sinha died. |
| 3/20/1782 | Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 4/17/1904 | Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija, cricketer, pioneer Indian Test opening batsman, Right Arm Bowler and played 3 matches, was born at Karachi. |
| 9/10/1923 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali child litterateur, passed away. |
| 12/1/1966 | Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union. |
| 3/11/1948 | SS Jal Usha, the first ocean-going steamer made in India, was launched from Visakhapatnam. |
| 6/25/1975 | President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day. |
| 3/21/1957 | India's national calender came into force. |
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