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Historical Event on 3/16/1999
Amarjeet Kaypee of Haryana, during an innings of 148 against Madhya Pradesh in the super-league match at Rajnandgaon, overtook Ashok Malhotra's 7,274 runs and became the highest run-getter in Ranji Trophy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 8/30/1903 | Bhagwati Charan Varma was born. |
| 6/17/1995 | Motilal Vohra, UP Governor, sets agenda for a two-day special session of the UP Assembly asking the speaker to take up a motion against self first. |
| 2/27/1854 | Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company. |
| 7/15/1920 | Earthquake in Delhi. |
| 8/1/1962 | Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation. |
| 12/26/1999 | Shankar Dayal Sharma (81), former President of India, died in New Delhi. |
| 3/19/1935 | British fire on 20,000 Muslims, killing 23. |
| 1/26/1972 | Amar Jawan, a national memorial, established at India Gate, New Dehli. |
| 1/26/1972 | Maharana Pratap Singh of Udaipur, great freedom fighter, soldier and revolutionary, passed away. His son Amar Singh succeeded him. |
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