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Historical Event on 10/16/1942
Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 people in south of Calcutta, India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/27/1942 | Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India. |
| 11/8/1965 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed. |
| 2/7/1864 | P. S. S. Iyyer, famous lawyer and educationalist, was born. |
| 2/20/1847 | Turf Club of Royal Calcutta was established. |
| 3/23/1923 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon. |
| 9/11/1999 | India's Sachin Ratti won the men's singles title in the New Zealand International Badminton championship, defeating top seed and world No. 23 Rio Suryana of Australia in the final. |
| 1/16/2000 | Punjab men, Railway women win the Senior National Volleyball championship in Salem. |
| 6/6/1997 | Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. |
| 9/10/1911 | Jatin Chakravorty, social reformer, politician and trade unionist, was born at Comilla, Bangladesh. |
| 12/30/1879 | Shri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950), modern Hindu Advaita renaissance saint of Maharshi Research Institute, philosopher and yogi, was born in Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu. |
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