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Historical Event on 5/16/1994
Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1999 | Militants attack the residential complex of Border Security Force (BSF) in Madar village near Bandipur and take 12 persons as hostages after killing four. |
| 11/21/1994 | Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah, 84, noted economist and educationist, died. |
| 10/5/1949 | A. K. Pillai, great social reformer and politician, died. |
| 2/3/1986 | Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta. |
| 5/16/1946 | Gandhiji's Cabinet Mission announces Plan. |
| 8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
| 9/21/1994 | Outbreak of pneumonic plague in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 11/18/1727 | Maharaja Jai Singh-II of Amber laid the stone of Jaipur City. Vidyadhar Chakravarty of Bengal was the architect of the first planned city in India. |
| 10/20/1991 | 6.1-7.1 earthquake in uttar Kashi and three northern districts of UP in the Himalayan foothills kills more than 1,600 people. |
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