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Historical Event on 3/16/1924
Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1848 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born. |
| 11/8/1893 | Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, great musician and professor, was born in Bangalore. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 9/21/1938 | Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
| 1/2/1943 | Vir Bhai Kotwal sacrificed his life. |
| 10/28/1947 | Sheikh Mohammad Abdulla invited to form an interim government in J&K. |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
| 11/29/1961 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 3/21/1939 | Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow. |
| 10/14/1999 | Sheikh Shamim, an Indian, is hanged for espionage in Pakistan. |
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