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Historical Event on 3/16/1901

Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/28/1928Baburao Sadvelkar, famous painter, was born.
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
9/3/1905Kamlapati Tripathi, leader of Indian National Congess, was born.
9/7/1887Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh.
7/26/1844Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court.
11/5/1997Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.
4/18/1904Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born.
8/8/1911Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic.
2/8/1999Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi.
4/1/1998Prabhat Kumar, a 1963 batch IAS officer, was appointed as the new Cabinet Secretary of India. He succeeded T.S.R. Subramaniam and held the office till 31-10-2000.