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Historical Event on 4/16/1959
Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/18/1911 | Adityanath Jha, former Governor of Delhi, was born. |
| 2/13/1945 | Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, was born. |
| 10/12/1991 | Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi. |
| 10/24/1856 | Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur. |
| 3/1/1979 | Jairamdas Doulatram, great national leader, freedom fighter and journalist, passed away at Delhi. He played a vital role to recognised Sindhi as one of the national laguages of India. |
| 11/16/1915 | Vishnu Ganesh Pingle, martyr, died. |
| 5/12/1915 | Rash Behari Bose, revolutionary leader, left India by boarding a Japanese steamer ''Sanuki Maru'' under assumed name of P. N. Tagore to dodge the British forces. |
| 6/5/1996 | Kubernath Rai, well known writer, passed away. |
| 1/5/1990 | Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team. |
| 1/1/1999 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Elderly"". |
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