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Historical Event on 6/16/1946

Cabinet Mission negotiations were discontinued. Viceroy proposed Interim Government.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1997aspal Rana equals world mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.
12/30/1879Shri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), modern Hindu Advaita renaissance saint of Maharshi Research Institute, philosopher and yogi, was born in Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
11/22/1968Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
8/22/1988Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
1/24/1952The first International Film Festival of India held in Bombay, this event had a great impact on Indian Cinema.
1/19/1966Indira Gandhi elected leader of the Congress party to succeed the late Lal Bahadur Shastri as the third Prime Minister of India. She pledged to follow path of Non-Alignment in worlds affairs.
1/23/199750,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
11/24/1952Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
8/15/1969Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formed under Department of Atomic Energy.