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Historical Event on 7/16/1997

Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/4/1990Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively.
1/14/1998The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together for a three-nation business summit in Dhaka.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
11/8/1988Zahir Al-Din Muhammad Babur Shah, founder of Mughal dynasty, passed away at the age of 48 at Dhaulpur.
10/10/1957Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
11/17/1991Narasimha Rao, PM, wins by-election in Nandyal with a record margin of 5,80,297 votes.
9/23/1967P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born.
5/22/1927M. S. Shivsankaraiyah, cricket test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Andhra Pradesh.