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Historical Event on 11/16/1991

Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1809Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa.
10/3/1890Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born.
3/7/1974T. T. Krishnamachari, former Finance Minister, passed away.
7/2/1929Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died.
2/18/1946Cabinet Mission in India.
12/1/1985Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.
6/6/1997U.S. Congress honours Mother Teresa with a gold medal.
5/13/1994Renowned environmentalist Maurice F. Strong chosen for the Jawaharlal Nehru International Understanding award for 1992.
3/16/1912Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.