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Historical Event on 3/16/1993
Bomb blast in a multi-storey building in Calcutta kills 70 people.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1997 | General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA. |
| 7/21/1977 | K.S. Hegde elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
| 9/28/1993 | Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives. |
| 4/21/1990 | The first indigenously built missile cruiser boat, 'Vibhuti', was inaugurated and launched. |
| 11/16/1998 | Kiran More, former Indian stumper, calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda. |
| 12/31/1961 | 99 Infantry Brigade Group, under Brigadier K S Raja, launched operations in Katanga province and regained full control of Katanga amidst stiff resistance offered by a break away faction (Katangese gendarmerie). |
| 2/17/1986 | Jiddu Krishnamurti, famous Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness), passed away at the age of 90 yrs at Ojai, California, USA. |
| 4/3/1992 | Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited (CIL), was formed. |
| 7/22/1998 | India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian Athletic championships at Fukuoka. |
| 3/10/1998 | India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi. |
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