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Historical Event on 12/16/1952

Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/6/1987Establishment of 'Maharashtra Journalist Fund' Trust.
7/1/1928Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims.
4/15/1994India signed `GAT' agreement.
6/6/1986Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
7/31/1992Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award.
1/6/1942Four of the flight's six aircraft were promptly lost to Japanese bombing and No. 4 Flight gave place in Moulmein to No. 3 Flight which had meanwhile re-equipped with four ex-RAF Blenheim ls. B-314 completed first commercial flight around the world.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.
1/20/1996The Indian Army conducted United Nation Peacekeeping Keeping Operations in New Delhi from 20 to 26 Jan 1996, wherein delegates from UN HQ and 17 foreign countries of the Asia-Pacific region participated. The Under Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, was the chief guest.
1/23/1976Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation.