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Historical Event on 10/16/1990

Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/22/2000Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs.
10/3/1831Britishers captured Mysore.
3/1/1996Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.
7/3/199625 to 30\% hike in prices of petroleum products.
7/29/1997India to revive 'Agni' Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile programme.
5/6/1775Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
1/22/1922Shanta Buddhisagar, famous Marathi writer, was born.
11/3/1986Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died.
1/25/1917Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur.
5/28/1996BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.