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Historical Event on 7/16/1997
Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1781 | British troops defeated Hyder Ali's progress. He was checked by Eyree Coote after the battle of Porto Novo and becamed subdued. |
| 4/5/1993 | K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 10/5/1997 | Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country. |
| 2/5/1986 | Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away. |
| 3/4/1879 | Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 2/7/1931 | Shila Kaul, the chief minister of New Delhi, was born. |
| 1/3/1952 | India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization. |
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