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Historical Event on 8/16/1974
A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31st March 1977.
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| 7/8/1996 | T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner, wins Magsaysay award. |
| 10/10/1909 | Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 7/13/1999 | Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar. |
| 5/25/1996 | Kathapurushan' wins best film national award. |
| 1/5/1869 | Venkatesh Tirko Kulkarni, famous Kannad novelist 'Galagnath', was born. |
| 10/2/1951 | Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya JanSangh Party. |
| 5/10/1901 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". |
| 1/11/1993 | Communal violence in Bombay and Ahmedabad spreads; By-elections postponed. |
| 11/5/1915 | Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born. |
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