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Historical Event on 8/16/1994
Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/2/1972 | Shimla Treaty' was singed between Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Pakistani counterpart Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. |
| 11/7/1950 | King Tribhubana Bir Bikram of Nepal flees palace for refuge in Indian Embassy at Kathmandu. |
| 3/19/1996 | Election Commission announces dates of Lok Sabha elections (Apr. 27, May 2, 7 & 21) and Assembly elections in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, West Bengal, Assam & Pondicherry. |
| 1/16/1858 | Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged. |
| 12/29/1977 | World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay. |
| 1/12/1708 | Shahu was crowned as the Maratha ruler. Shahu, son of Sambhaji, entered Satara and released Aurangzeb's son Azam the previous year. |
| 7/14/1969 | 85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur. |
| 9/9/1949 | Hindi was accepted as the national language of India. |
| 12/17/1987 | Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims. |
| 1/15/1999 | Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai. |
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