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Historical Event on 10/16/1994

IRS P-2 successfully placed in orbit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/30/1949Night Airmail Services was inaugurated.
2/13/1601John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.
9/2/1996Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.
5/14/1954President issues an order extending application of Indian Constitution to Kashmir with the concurrence of the State government.
9/23/1908Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born.
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
9/16/1996First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.