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Historical Event on 2/16/1992

Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/2000An armed intruder snipes at naval commando Satvir Singh at the official residence of the Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar in the high- security Rajaji Marg area in New Delhi. The Navy sets up an enquiry board to probe the incident.
2/3/1988INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers.
12/5/1933Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
12/1/1999Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol
10/31/1990Hindus flee Muslim prorsecution in Kashmir Valley.
1/9/1916Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
8/20/1998The Punjab and Haryana High Court upholds the conviction of former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill for outraging the modesty of an IAS officer Mrs. Rupan Deol Bajaj.
6/9/1948Laloo Prasad Yadav, former Chief Minister of Bihar, was born.
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.