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Historical Event on 10/16/1968

Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.

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11/11/1906Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras.
10/6/1949Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune.
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1/30/1999Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament.
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3/14/1998Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri.
4/16/1992The PM gives a new slogan to the nation, 'Desh banao, desh bachao'.
1/11/1993Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed.