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Historical Event on 2/16/1968

Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon along with their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/4/1997Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls.
1/1/1994This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Family"".
6/3/1915Sir' knighthood was granted to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore by the British Government.
4/30/1988Raj Kapoor gets Dada Saheb Phalke award for 1988.
7/24/1999Om Prakash Chautala is sworn in the Chief Minister of Haryana, and will seek trust vote on July 27.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
12/3/1971Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies.
2/18/1993Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
6/12/1997Jain hawala case dropped against former ministers Kamal Nath, B.D. Dhakne, Chand Ram and Bhuta Singh.