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Historical Event on 4/16/1801
Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.

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6/15/1991	General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.
4/2/1994	Ravi Naik sworn in CM.
8/16/1932	Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation.
1/4/1909	Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born.
6/26/1992	The Tin Bigha corridor leased to Bangladesh as per the Indo-Bangladesh agreement.
2/8/1959	The Report of the Committee of Parliament constituted under Article 344 (4) of the constitution was submitted to the President.
4/4/1905	More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping.
3/29/1999	A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
4/1/1985	Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture was established during the 7th Plan period. The Institute started functioning independently since April 1987. The Headquarters of the Institute are located in Chennai with field and farm facilities at Muttukadu and three Research Centres at Kakdwip(West Bengal), Puri(Orissa) and Narakkal (Kerala).
4/1/1878	Calcutta Museum was opened for general public.

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Historical Event on 4/16/1801 Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.

Historical Event on 4/16/1801
Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.