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Historical Event on 8/16/1997
Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/10/1996 | UP polls throw up a hung assembly. |
| 5/15/1878 | Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. |
| 10/1/1997 | Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries. |
| 1/4/1940 | Shrikant Sinkar, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 1/18/1998 | Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India. |
| 6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 2/21/1899 | Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 4/13/1890 | Ramchandra Gopal Torne (Dadasaheb), film director, was born. |
| 9/15/1927 | Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born. |
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