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Historical Event on 4/16/1976
The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/17/1970 | The first microwave link, which was set up without foreign assistance, was commissioned between Asansol, Dhanbad and Ranchi. |
| 6/3/1915 | Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government. |
| 2/26/1966 | 34 national leaders charge Indira Gandhi's rule is 'constitutional dictatorship'. |
| 9/1/1668 | Mumbai was handed over to East India Company by King of England. |
| 2/24/1936 | Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
| 2/25/1993 | 113 MPs arrested and Murali Manohar Joshi injured in police action. |
| 11/11/1793 | English pioneer missionary William Carey, 32, reached Calcutta five months after setting sail for India. Later, Carey founded the Baptist Missionary Society, the first of the British Protestant missions agencies. |
| 11/28/1704 | Jacob Mossel, Governor General (Dutch East Indies), was born. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 8/2/1885 | Poet Siyaram Saran Gupt, brother of national poet Maithilysharan Gupt, was born. |
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