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Historical Event on 8/16/1996
CBI raids house of former minister Sukh Ram and finds cash and jewellery to the tune of Rs. 3 crore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1996 | India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game. |
| 7/3/1941 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, cinematographer (Kathapurushan, Mathulikal), was born. |
| 8/2/1987 | Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship. |
| 5/12/1952 | Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. |
| 7/15/1903 | Kumaraswamy Kamraj, great freedom fighter, social reformer, political leader and member of the Lok Sabha, was born in a trading family at Virudhunagar in Tamil Nadu. |
| 7/19/1965 | Batukeshwar Dutt, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 5/2/1953 | Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war. |
| 3/29/1979 | Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy. |
| 12/19/1978 | The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26. |
| 9/22/1891 | Gangopadhyay Taraknath, famous novelist in Bengal, passed away. |
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