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Historical Event on 2/16/1968

Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
2/26/1972President Varahgiri Venkat Giri inaugurated the Vikram Earth Satellite Station at Wardha near Arvi.
10/19/1689Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
4/5/1990Mrs.Sheela Flather, an Indian national, becomes the first Asian to be nominated to the House of Lords.
4/5/1990Akbar, great Mughal Emperor, won Kabul.
6/14/1886Orphanage for little girls was established.
1/24/1921T. N. Raina, former Army Chief and High Commissioner of Canada, was born.
1/25/1983Telugu Desam swept to power in Andhra Pradesh.
5/14/1956Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.