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Historical Event on 6/16/1990
GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1972 | America declared Naval Drill in the Indian Ocean. |
| 3/28/1914 | Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement. |
| 11/15/1817 | Battle of Yerwada. |
| 8/5/1992 | Achyutrao Patwardhan, leader of 'Quit India Movement', died at Varanasi at the age of 86. |
| 8/7/1905 | The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta. |
| 11/7/1998 | Jiwan Singh Umrangal (84), Akali leader and former Punjabi Minister, dies in hospital in Beas. |
| 12/11/1783 | Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away. |
| 9/23/1983 | Supreme Court upholds execution of criminals through hanging by rope. |
| 1/12/1992 | Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer, passed away at the age of 67. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
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