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Historical Event on 2/16/1896

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1968Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away.
2/21/1952General Election ( 1st) of India ends.
12/8/1857Mohsini from Delhi was hanged in jail.
10/30/1976Elections to the lower house of the Indian Parliament suspended again until early 1978.
6/4/1958The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.
5/23/1993PM arrives in Tashkent.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
4/30/1992Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.
10/31/1990Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.