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Historical Event on 3/16/1998

Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1956The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act.
12/21/1881Pundit Sunder Lal Sharma, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Rajim, M.P.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
9/5/1987Shanbagh, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women's category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome .
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
10/4/1993PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
7/25/1961Delhi upgraded as an A-class city on the basis of provisional Census figures of 1961.
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.
9/29/1971Cyclone & tidal wave off Bay of Bengal kills as many as 10,000 people.