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Historical Event on 8/16/1922

Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/18/1990Devkumar, famous Hindi film actor, died.
9/18/1990Babur's eldest son Humayun ascended the throne. He was, doubtless, a man of parts.
5/26/2000Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai.
2/6/1992The Centre decides to wind up the 7-year-old Food Processing Industry ministry.
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
11/15/1913Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15)
9/20/1944Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
6/27/1906Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'.
4/18/1904Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born.