Today Indian History NOV 16

Today Indian history Nov 16

16-November-1835           Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19).

16-November-1860           First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa.

16-November-1877           Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer and innovator, died. He was the first Indian who was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. He introduced lighting by gas and was the first to build ""INDUS"", a steam-ship in India in 1833. He also introduced sewing machine, photography and electro-plat

16-November-1883           Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and journalist, was born at Varanasi.

16-November-1887           Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born.

16-November-1908           Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born.

16-November-1913           Agnihotri Ambadas Shankar, journalist and litterateur, was born.

16-November-1915           Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, martyr, died.

Vishnu Ganesh Pingle was an Indian revolutionary and a member of the Ghadar Party who was one of those executed in 1915 following the Lahore conspiracy trial for his role in the Ghadar conspiracy.

16-November-1921           Nearly 700 Mopalh rebels were killed by the Gurkhas as they attacked the Pandikkad post at Delhi.

16-November-1947           Kamta Prasad ""Guru"" died at Jabalpur. He was renowned for his contribution in the field of Hindi Grammer. He was the editor of a monthly 'Saraswati' and 'Balasakha', children magaz

16-November-1958           India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.

16-November-1962           Chinese troops launch a major offensive in the frontier war.

16-November-1983           Kapil Dev took 9-83 vs West Indies at Ahmedabad. India still lost the game.

16-November-1986           Second SAARC summit held at Bangalore.

16-November-1988           India gives full recognition to the state of Palestine.

16-November-1989           66 out of 71 trapped miners at Raniganj rescued.

16-November-1990           Allahabad High Court stays UP Government's decision to increase reservation quota for Backward Classes.

16-November-1990           Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent).

16-November-1991           60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.

16-November-1991           Madhukar Karekar, famous journalist, died

16-November-1992           Reservation, Supreme Court rejects economic criteria.

16-November-1993           Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.

16-November-1995           Mass Rapid Transit System (MRTS), India's first elevated suburban railway, becomes operational in Madras.

16-November-1995           The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.

16-November-1997           Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.

16-November-1998           Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda.

16-November-1999           Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'.

16-November-2000           The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.