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Historical Event on 2/16/1997

Ramakrishna Hegde launches a new national political party, Lok Shakti.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1960National Aeronautical Research Laboratory moves to Bangalore with offices at Palace Road and Jayamahal Road. It soon becomes National Aeronautical Laboratory. Dr Nilakantan invites Dr D M Rao to lead the 4 ft tunnel project.
3/3/1891Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
8/28/1993President's rule in J&K extended for another six months.
11/20/1999World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy.
7/24/1985Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sikh leader Sant Harchand Singh Longowal of Akali Dal signed a peace contract known as 'Punjab Accord' thus ending the four-year agitation in Punjab.
8/5/1992The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there.
1/10/1963Gold Control Measures Plan was started by the Government of India.
2/23/1996North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated.
2/23/1962Union government sets up an Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) formed by the Department of Atomic Energy and work on Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) started.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.