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Historical Event on 5/16/1986

V. Shantaram, 75, was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/20/1992Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup.
10/6/1927First Indian Cinematograph Enquiry Committee, under the chairmanship of Diwan Bahadur T. Rangachariar, was appointed by the Government.
10/28/1928M.G.K. Menon, Physics expert, was born.
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
10/26/1932Indian Muslim leader demands that Gandhi be released from prison. The Viceroy responded that this was only possible if Gandhi disassociated himself from the civil disobedience campaign.
12/9/1873Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building.
10/24/2000Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.
12/14/1999India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
11/9/1967Bhartiya Kranti Dal, a new political party founded.
8/1/1998The DMK condemns the BJP-led coalition Government's decision to set up a Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency and rejects the Action Taken Report on the final report of the Jain Commission with reference to Mr. M. Karunanidhi.