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Historical Event on 2/16/1992

Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/11/1998The Government reduces customs duty on edible oils under the Open General Licence from 20 to 10 per cent.
3/20/2000Unidentified militants gun down 35 Sikhs in the south Kashmir village of Chatti Singhpora in one of the worst incidents of violence in the State.
2/28/1937Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit.
1/18/1998Justice M. M. Punchhi is sworn in Chief Justice of India.
3/28/1917Umesh Chandra Panigrahi, great author and journalist, was born at Raruan, Orissa.
4/15/1946Triumphant over flesh and pain they passed away our day of peace to Cain. The original memorial was erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
12/14/1969Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
9/18/1996Suresh Mehta ministry wins the confidence vote in Gujarat .
7/23/1856Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.