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Historical Event on 12/16/1867

Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/3/1954More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
2/9/1931A set of six stamps were issued during the inauguration of New Delhi.
1/12/1863Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta.
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.
8/16/1994Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused.
6/3/1915Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government.
9/3/1987Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster.
10/24/1991Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years.
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
5/4/1994Fourth developmental launch of ASLV. 113 kg Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C2) was launched by fourth developmental flight of ASLV-D4 from Sriharikota. This carried two scientific payload, a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) experiment and a Retarding Potential Analyser (RPA). It is still in service.