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Historical Event on 2/16/1993
Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 8/6/1905 | Chittaranjan Das ""Desh Bandhu"", freedom fighter and advocate, started an organisation named ""Swadeshi Mandali"". He also founded magazine named Narayana in 1914 and a Bengali weekly in 1922 and the daily 'Forward'. |
| 5/3/1971 | Dhanjay Ramchandra Gadgil, famous economist, passed away. |
| 12/11/1996 | T. N. Seshan retires. M. S. Gill becomes the new election Chief Election Commissioner. |
| 4/19/1995 | Rajendra Kumari Bajpai appointed the Lt. Governor of Pondichery. |
| 7/19/1974 | Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London. |
| 7/19/1925 | Dinesh Singh, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Kalakankar (U.P). |
| 8/20/1986 | A restructured 20-point programme announced. |
| 1/9/1841 | John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris. |
| 8/21/1997 | Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India. |
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