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Historical Event on 3/16/1993

Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/15/1946The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
7/31/1996Joginder Singh became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 30/06/97).
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
9/21/1999Mr. A. C. Muthiah was elected president and Kapil Dev the senior coach at the Board of Control of Cricket in India AGM in Jaipur.
7/14/1636Aurangzeb was appointed as Shahjahan by Viceroy of Deccan.
9/26/1996Deve Gowda, PM, takes oath as Rajya Sabha member. He was the first PM to enter parliament through RS. Indira Gandhi was already a RS member when elected leader in 1966.
3/29/1982Delhi (707) beat Karnataka (705) on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
7/27/1889Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji.
9/8/1995Harcharan Singh Brar sworn in as the Chief Minister of Punjab.