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Historical Event on 5/16/1998
India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/26/1801 | Supreme Courts had Bengal and Madras by the charter. |
| 10/15/1977 | The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership. |
| 1/12/1934 | Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers. |
| 9/10/2000 | Marat Safin wins the men's singles in the US open championship. |
| 3/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98). |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 11/21/1962 | India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. |
| 6/30/1817 | Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died. |
| 5/31/1891 | Buddhagaya Mahabodhi Society, an organization to encourage Buddhist studies in India and abroad, was established by a Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala. |
| 11/19/2000 | The Government announces a partial rollback in the price of kerosene by Re. 1 a litre and LPG by Rs. 10 a cylinder in deference to the demands by allies led by the Trinamool Congress. |
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