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AJIT AGARKAR |
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December 16, 2007: He played his last
T20I match on this day; against New Zealand. |
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BANGLADESH ARMED FORCES DAY |
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December 16, 1971: Pakistan Army of 93,000
Officers and Soldiers surrendered to the allied forces of Bangladesh and
India, ending the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971 simultaneously. |
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BHIMRAO RAMJI AMBEDKAR |
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December 16, 1956: A conversion program was
organised on this day so that cremation attendees were also converted to
Buddhism at the same place. |
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H.D. KUMARASWAMY |
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December 16 - Birthday |
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ANDHRA PRADESH |
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October 19, 1952 - In an effort to gain an
independent state based on linguistic differences and to protect the
interests of the Telugu-speaking people of Madras State, Potti
Sreeramulu fasted until death starting from this day. |
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INDIA - CRIMES 2012 Delhi Gang Rape |
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December 16, 2012: The crime involved a
rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a
neighbourhood in South Delhi, when a 23-year-old female physiotherapy
intern, Jyoti Singh Pandey was beaten and gang raped in a private bus in
which she was travelling with a male friend. |
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INDIA - JUSTICE
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December 16 2012: The young
woman, Nirbhaya, and her friend boarded a bus in south
Delhi. The two were then attacked and the woman was
gang-raped by six men, brutalized with an iron rod and her
intestines were pulled out. She died in a Singapore hospital
13 days later. |
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INDO-PAK WAR of 1971 |
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December 16, 1971: Lieutenant-General A. A.
K. Niazi, supreme commander of Pakistani Army in East Pakistan,
surrendered to the Allied Forces (Mitro Bahini) represented by
Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Arora of Indian Army at the surrender.
India and Bangladesh gain victory. |
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VIJAY DIVAS INDO-PAK WAR - 1971 |
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December 16 |
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JYOTI AMGE |
December 16 - Birthday December 16, 2011:
She was officially declared the world's smallest woman by Guinness World
Records with a height of 62.8 cm (2 ft 0.6 in). |
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MOHAMMAD HIDAYATULLAH |
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December 16, 1970: Retired as the 11th
Chief Justice of India. |
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POTTI SREERAMULU |
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December 16 - Death Anniversary |
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ROOP SINGH |
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December 16 - Death Anniversary |
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SALARJUNG MUSEUM |
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December 16, 1951: The Salarjung Museum was
opened on this day. |
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SALIK LUCKNAVI |
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December 16 - Birth Anniversary |
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SAM MANEKSHAW |
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16 December - This day is celebrated each year as "Vijay Divas" in
memory of the victory achieved under his leadership in 1971. |
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SHOBHA NAGI REDDY |
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December 16 - Birth Anniversary |
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