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Historical Event on 12/16/1960

Ganesh Chintaman Karve, creator of Marathi dictionary and author, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
6/1/1970Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969.
2/19/1992Shridhar Narayan Bendre, famous painter, passed away.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.
9/1/1934Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal.
8/2/1970Smt. Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, India's first woman ambassador, was deputed at Hungary.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
5/14/1914Ekanath Dattatreya Kulkarni, educationist and writer, was born at Bhaloni, Tal Pandharpur.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.