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Historical Event on 2/16/1962

General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/11/1895Vinoba Bhave (real name Vinayak Narhari Bhave), great Gandhian Acharya, was born at Ganoda village of Maharashtra.
7/22/1997Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70.
7/16/1905A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat.
1/25/1992Swaran Singh and Vajpayee awarded 'Padma Vibhushan'.
1/22/1990FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case.
12/17/1877Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.
5/1/1940Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
9/16/1990Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
8/18/2000The Supreme Court rejects a petition filed by former Navy chief Vishnu Bhagwat challenging his dismissal from service and the consequent direction stripping him of the title Admiral.