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Historical Event on 1/16/1992
Prices of steel and iron decontrolled.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/28/1954 | 137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad. |
| 9/16/1931 | Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 1/30/1785 | Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born. |
| 12/21/1990 | Former Union Finance Secretary S. Venkatramanan appointed Governor of RBI. B. Rachaiah and Dr. Sarup Singh sworn in as Governors of Kerala and Gujarat respectively. |
| 8/20/1979 | Indian premier Charan Singh resigns. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 5/24/1991 | The body of Rajiv Gandhi, India's assassinated former premier and son of the late Indira Gandhi, was cremated in New Delhi today. He was killed by a suicide bomber in the southern state of Tamil Nadu three days ago. Police suspect that Tamil rebels, fighting for independence in Sri Lanka, carried out the murder. Gandhi's death signaled the end of the Nehru dynasty's rule over India. His two children were too young to assume the leadership of this turbulent nation. There was pressure for Sonia Gandhi to succeed her husband, but she was Italian-born and refused. |
| 5/26/2000 | Prabhakar G. Surur (93) died in Mumbai. |
| 9/20/1996 | Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress. |
| 7/27/1914 | Kalpana Dutta, great freedom fighter, was born at Chatgaon. (27th July, 1914). |
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