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Historical Event on 3/16/1997

Saidian Shafi, correspondent, Ankhon Dekhi', TV news magazine, and his personal security officer killed by militants in Srinagar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/8/1980Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.
11/29/1798Neplus Naresh Fardinad Chaturth announced that they will fight against France.
4/18/1858Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born.
1/1/1985United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"".
5/23/1947The U.K. Cabinet today took the historic step of agreeing to Lord Mountbatten's proposal for the partition of India into two states, one Muslim and the other Hindu. The Viceroy is to have a series of talks with Lord Listowel, the Secretary for India.
1/18/1998India overtake a Pakistan total of 314 to win one-day final in Dhaka.
6/18/1956New Hindu Succession Act was passed.
2/8/1993India and Spain sign four agreements as the Spanish PM, Felipe Gonzalez, began a two-day visit to New Delhi.
9/11/1999India'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.
11/30/1989Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister.