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Historical Event on 2/16/1955
Maghnath Saha, famous scientist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/7/1906 | Bank of India, the first Indian bank, was registered. |
| 4/4/1987 | Agney, famous Hindi litterateur and Gyanpeeth Award winning poet, passed away. |
| 3/24/1924 | Virendrakumar Bhattacharya, Gyanpeeth award winner and Assamia novelist, was born. |
| 10/15/1932 | First Indian commercial airliner service 'Tata Sons Ltd' started. (Tata Airlines) |
| 6/4/1912 | Alungal Mathai Thomas, social reformer, politician and diplomat, was born at Kurikad, Kerala. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 7/10/1927 | Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults. |
| 9/29/2000 | Nayudu award goes to former India cricket captain Lt. Col. Hemu Adhikari. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
| 3/11/1784 | Tipu Sultan and Britishers signed the treaty at Mangalore which is known as the Mangalore treaty. |
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