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Historical Event on 2/16/1896
Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1962 | Sir Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya, father of modern engineering, passed away at the age of 102. He was receipent of ""Bharat Ratna"" Award. |
| 1/1/1956 | No. 20 Squadron, Indian Air Force's first jet squadron equipped with Vampires, was formed and christened 'The Lightnings'. |
| 3/8/1963 | Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar. |
| 2/17/1976 | New Zealand score their first innings win in Tests vs India. |
| 7/21/1947 | Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three. |
| 1/18/1950 | Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away. |
| 1/18/1972 | Vinod Ganpat Kambli, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1993-), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/9/1966 | India yields to Sikh demand for Punjab-speaking state. |
| 5/13/1971 | General Insurance nationalized. |
| 11/1/1961 | First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748. |
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