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Historical Event on 8/16/1980

Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/2000Om Prakash Chautala, Indian National Lok Dal supremo, sworn in the 18th Chief Minister of Haryana.
12/14/1999India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
7/31/2000The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
11/12/1885Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
2/9/1992Publication of daily newspaper `Lokpatra' started from Nanded.
11/27/1999Lt. Gen. J.F.R. Jacob is sworn in Punjab Governor.
11/27/1907Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad.
10/11/1968Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee)