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Historical Event on 8/16/1997

Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1967US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
10/21/1954Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1.
7/1/1941C. Y. Chintamani died.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
11/8/1992Mother Teresa, nobel prize winner, was presented 'Bharat Ki Mahan Suputri' award.
3/31/1994Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India.
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
2/25/1909Gandhiji arrested at Volksrust; sentenced to 3 months.
3/4/1997Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised.