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Historical Event on 3/16/1986

Internationally wanted criminal Charles Sobharaj and 6 other prisoners escape from Tihar Jail.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/6/1990VHP-sponsored 'karseva' in Ayodhya passes off peacefully.
2/13/1713Farrukh Siyar becomes Emperor of India after capturing Red Fort.
12/17/1959Pattabhi Sitaramayya, president of Indian National Congress and politician, died at the age of 78.
10/3/1992Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
1/10/1967Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur.
3/12/1992A devastating wave of car-bomb explosions killed an estimated 300 people and injured hundreds more today in the large western Indian port city of Bombay. The first blast ripped through the city's stock exchange building, and minutes later a dozen slightly less powerful explosions rocked the bustling city center.The bomb attacks appeared to have been part of a carefully planned operation.The devices were clearly meant to cause maximum loss of life and damage to property.
4/1/1962Maharashtra State Finance Corporation started its operations.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.
4/16/1997Govt. orders foreign and domestic airlines to install air safety systems by the end of 1998. Aircraft with more than 30 seats that do not have Airborne Collision Avoidance System and transponders not to be allowed into Indian airpace from 1/1/99.