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Historical Event on 12/16/1980
Fisher Wealthy Hornsinger, an American social worker and who worked for Adult Education in India, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/15/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, passed away. |
| 7/27/1949 | Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir. |
| 6/21/1991 | P. V. Narasimha Rao was sworn in as the ninth Prime Minister of India. He reimained in this office till May 16, 1996. He formed a 54-member ministry in the 10th Parliament. |
| 3/25/1999 | Arathi Ponnappa,Former National tennis champion, called it quits from competitive tennis in Bangalore. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 4/27/1942 | Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India. |
| 6/1/1995 | Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government. |
| 9/12/1998 | Bihar flood toll mounts to 320. |
| 6/12/1894 | Busushottam Vishwanath Bapat, internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor, was born. |
| 9/29/1755 | Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India |
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