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Historical Event on 10/16/1942
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/17/1952 | The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad. |
| 5/14/1960 | The first plane of India flew upto New York. |
| 7/1/1928 | Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims. |
| 12/7/1782 | Hyder Ali, warrior of Mysore, passed away in a camp near Chittur. |
| 9/24/1999 | The Chief Controller of Defence Accounts (pensions) was renamed as the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts(Pensions), Allahabad. |
| 4/11/1992 | Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award. |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 8/2/1922 | Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 11/16/1991 | 60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states. |
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