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Historical Event on 7/16/1992
Shankar Dayal Sharma is appointed President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/28/1996 | Sukh Ram sent to Tihar jail in assets case. |
| 8/19/1992 | K.R.Narayanan elected the ninth Vice President of India. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 12/11/1783 | Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away. |
| 12/22/1998 | Janata Dal's S. Jaipal Reddy selected for the ''best parliamentarian award'' for 1998. |
| 4/1/1990 | Gold Control Act was withdrawn. |
| 4/26/1895 | Guru Baksha Singh, modern Punjabi litterateur was born. |
| 8/20/1917 | Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'. |
| 5/23/1903 | Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta. |
| 5/22/1996 | United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party. |
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