Today Importance - 16th September
16-Sep-1913
Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
16 September 1916
Renowned classical singer and Bharat Rattan awardee M.S. Birth of Subalakshmi.
16 September 1916
Journalist and social reformer D.R. Samanta was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
16 September 1929
Yermili Janardhan Rao, educationist, was born in Tanuku (West Godavari).
16 September 1931
Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutt and Santosh Mitra were shot dead by an officer at Hijli Detention Camp near Kharagpur. He was arrested for participating in the Hijli meeting.
16 September 1931
Enakkal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a world renowned physicist.
16 September 1931
R. Ramachandra Rao, a cricket Test umpire for one Test in 1986–87, was born in Tamil Nadu.
16 September 1932
Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of the Indian Medical Service, died in London. He also received the Nobel Prize.
16 September 1954
The Lok Sabha has passed a clause in the Special Marriage Bill which provides for divorce by consent.
16-Sep-1955
British Colonial Secretary (India), Leopold C.M.S. Amery died at the age of 81.
16-Sep-1967
Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in fighting at Natu La Pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
16 September 1973
Death of great musician Abasaheb Mujumder.
16 September 1977
Famous classical singer Kesharbai Kerkar passed away in Bombay.
16 September 1990
Air India set a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people from Kuwait/Iraq in eight weeks during the Gulf War.
16-Sep-1995
The Prime Minister inducted 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevated three Deputy Ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
16-Sep-1996
Canada's first ODI match was played between India and Pakistan in Toronto.
16-Sep-1996
Voting in 34 constituencies in the second phase of Jammu and Kashmir.
16-Sep-1997
The general manager of Tata T was sent to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
16-Sep-1997
Rajeev Balakrishnan sets national record in 100m at ITC International Athletics Meet.
16-Sep-2000
Aparna Popot lost to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
16-Sep-2000
In a landmark judgment, the Rajasthan High Court declared Jains a religious minority community and allowed educational institutions established by them to get minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.
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