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Historical Event on 12/16/1999

Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
4/27/1986Congress (I) expels former Union Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee from the party for 6 years.
8/1/1927Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza, famous Hindi litterateur, was born.
2/14/1881Rajendra Lal Dutta and M.M.Basu established the first Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
7/6/1999The Indian High Commission staff member Yog Raj Vij, who was beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operatives, is released. India strongly condemns this assault.
2/10/1992Andaman and Nicobar Islands opened for foreign travellers.
7/27/1949Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir.
11/2/1990Many die in firing in Ayodhya as Karsevaks storm the Ram Janma Bhumi/Babri Masjid structure. Curfew in many areas in north and west India to prevent communal violence. Several people die in violence.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.