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Historical Event on 1/16/1995

Missile carrier vessel 'Vidhrut' dedicated to nation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1960Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale.
8/9/1966Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort.
4/11/1856Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
8/3/1900Nana Patil, great revolutionary, was born.
12/24/1921Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest.
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
5/24/2000The Supreme Court rejects the proposal for setting up benches outside Delhi.
10/16/1952Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi.
11/1/1902Alwar Iyengar Jaggu, famous Hindi writer and professor, was born at Chatra Ghosham.
4/11/1999The DRDO has successfully flight tested AGNI-11 with a range of 2000 km, using solid propellant rocket motors in both stages and rail mobile launcher system from its new launch complex in the Orissa Coast. With this launch the country has reached the point of operationalisation of AGNI-11 as a weapon system. (1-1-2000).