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Historical Event on 2/16/1962

General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1880Senapati Bapat (Pandurang Mahadev), armed freedom fighter, was born in Parnar (Maharashtra).
2/16/1923Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani, famous author, poet and playwright, passed away.
4/1/1869Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation.
7/23/2000Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand.
3/20/1993Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested.
4/8/1985India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster.
4/16/1991President's rule imposed in Haryana.
10/23/1997Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender.
1/8/1987P. G. Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), passed away.
3/28/1996JKLF declared unlawful by central govt.