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Historical Event on 1/16/1988
L. K. Jha, famous economist and member of Rajya Sabha, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
| 6/12/1894 | Busushottam Vishwanath Bapat, internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor, was born. |
| 2/24/1922 | Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG Test for India 1948), was born in Darkati, Punjab. |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 10/3/1996 | National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory. |
| 12/17/1996 | Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai. |
| 10/4/1992 | D. M. Sutar, freedom fighter and senior journalist, died. |
| 12/3/1956 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away. |
| 7/1/1955 | Imperial Bank of India was inaugurated and was renamed as State Bank of India. |
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