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Historical Event on 2/16/1980

The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1940Manvendranath Rai established the Radical Democratic Party.
5/15/1949Matsya Union formally merged with Greater Rajasthan.
11/9/1942Jami, last evergreen poet of Parsi language, died.
7/22/1925Govind Talwalkar, famous journalist and editor, was born.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
4/15/1963Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler), was born in Ghaziabad.
10/6/1997Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title.
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
8/5/1978Five died and 70 were injured as upper-caste Hindus clashed with untouchables in Maharashtra.