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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 |
| 10/16/1999 | Congress (I)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) combine is invited to form the Government in Maharashtra. Vilasrao Deshmukh to be sworn in as Chief Minister. |
| 1/18/1994 | A 12-point formula mooted to defuse the ministerial crisis. |
| 2/15/1945 | Indian troops capture Pagan at Burma. |
| 4/24/1888 | Bishnu Ram Medhi, chief minister of Assam and Governor of Madras, was born at Hajo. |
| 11/15/1989 | Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi. |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 11/20/1930 | With all the pageantry of the British Empire, a conference of Indian and British leaders had been convened in London to discuss dominion status for India. Surrounded by Maharajahs in turbans, King George V convened the round table conference in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Notably absent was Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the nationalist movement. The conference saw a breakdown of the Indian caste system as Brahmins dealt with spokesmen for ""untouchable |
| 4/2/1991 | Haryana Governor recommends President's rule. |
| 10/22/1913 | Harumal Sadarangani, famous Sindhi writer, was born at Sind, Pakistan. |
| 9/25/1899 | Narhar Gangadhar Apte, great Hindi writer, was born at Satara. |
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